UltiSnips does not handle some symlinks correctly?

[MaximLeyenson]

Expected behavior:

I keep my configuration files on GitLab, and sync across systems. Thus I have a

/home/my_username/island/dot-files/vim/UltiSnips/

folder, which contains

tex.snippets  
text.snippets
...

if I symlink this folder into ~/.vim/,

 $ file ~/.vim/UltiSnips 

 /home/my_username/.vim/UltiSnips: symbolic link to /home/my_username/island/dot-files/vim/UltiSnips 

it is not processed correctly.

Actual behavior:

$ vim /tmp/a.txt
:UltiSnipsEdit

I get

UltiSnips was not able to find a default directory for snippets. Do you have a .vim directory? Try :UltiSnipsEdit! instead of :UltiSnipsEdit.

Workaround I found

if I create a regular folder

    /home/my_username/.vim/UltiSnips/

and symlink files

tex.snippets, text.snippets, ...

there,

then everythng works as expected.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a folder Ultisnips somewhere with some custom snippets.
2. $ ln -sf Ultisnips ~/.vim/Ultisnips

---

• Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
• Vim Version: VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Feb 01 2022 09:16:32)
  Included patches: 1-2269, 3612, 3625, 3669, 3741
• UltiSnips Version: 1edcb40
• Python inside Vim: 3.8.10 (default, Jun 22 2022, 20:18:18) [GCC 9.4.0]

[halilim]

Some workaround (assuming an installation with vim-plug - normally in .vim/plugged):

fun Snip(folder, cmd)
  if a:cmd == 'view'
    " https://github.com/honza/vim-snippets
    let prefix = 'plugged/vim-snippets/'
  else
    let prefix = ''
  endif

  exe a:cmd '~/.vim/' . prefix . a:folder . '/' . &filetype . '.snippets'
endf
command SnipViewUltiSnips call Snip('UltiSnips', 'view')
command SnipViewSnipMate call Snip('snippets', 'view')
command SnipEditUltiSnips call Snip('UltiSnips', 'edit')

nnoremap <Leader>,s :SnipEditUltiSnips<CR>