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Yochem van Rosmalen dc5d313d66 fix(vim.fs): joinpath() should ignore empty items #38077
Problem:
vim.fs.joinpath treats empty string as a path segment
(it adds a path separator for each empty item):

    print(vim.fs.joinpath('', 'after/lsp', '')) -- '/after/lsp/'
    print(vim.fs.joinpath('', '')) -- '/'

Especially problematic if the empty segment is the first segment, as
that converts the path to an absolute path.

Solution:
Ignore empty (length of 0) path segments.

Benchmark:

    local function test(func)
      local t = vim.uv.hrtime()
      for _ = 1, 100000, 1 do
        func('', 'this/is', 'a/very/long/path', '', 'it', 'really', 'is')
      end
      print(math.floor((vim.uv.hrtime() - t) / 1e6), 'ms')
    end

- with Iter():filter() --> 370 ms
- building new segments table --> 208 ms
- with vim.tbl_filter --> 232 ms
- Instead of gsub split on `/` in all parts --> 1870 ms
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Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to:

See the Introduction wiki page and Roadmap for more information.

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The build is CMake-based, but a Makefile is provided as a convenience. After installing the dependencies, run the following command.

make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
sudo make install

To install to a non-default location:

make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/full/path/
make install

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Transitioning from Vim

See :help nvim-from-vim for instructions.

Project layout

├─ cmake/           CMake utils
├─ cmake.config/    CMake defines
├─ cmake.deps/      subproject to fetch and build dependencies (optional)
├─ runtime/         plugins and docs
├─ src/nvim/        application source code (see src/nvim/README.md)
│  ├─ api/          API subsystem
│  ├─ eval/         Vimscript subsystem
│  ├─ event/        event-loop subsystem
│  ├─ generators/   code generation (pre-compilation)
│  ├─ lib/          generic data structures
│  ├─ lua/          Lua subsystem
│  ├─ msgpack_rpc/  RPC subsystem
│  ├─ os/           low-level platform code
│  └─ tui/          built-in UI
└─ test/            tests (see test/README.md)

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