bug: "No permission to access path" - replace_in_file tooling not working on windows #2094
Description
Describe the bug
Hello, I'd love some help on this as I've been struggling for a while now and can't seem to figure it out.
Each time I use the avante chat or ask, I get this response when it tries to actually edit the file I asked it to make changes on:
replace_in_file failed
│ running tool
│ path: C:/Users/guyri/Documents/Git/buggy_adventures/dragonruby-windows-amd64/mygame/app/main.rb
╰─ Error: No permission to access path: C:/Users/guyri/Documents/Git/buggy_adventures/dragonruby-windows-amd64/mygame/app/main.rb
On a different terminal (git bash, pwsh, etc), it gives the same error just different tool, e.g:
insert failed
│ running tool
│ path: C:/Users/guyri/Documents/Git/buggy_adventures/dragonruby-windows-amd64/mygame/app/main.rb
╰─ Error: No permission to access path: C:/Users/guyri/Documents/Git/buggy_adventures/dragonruby-windows-amd64/mygame/app/main.rb
That path is just my current directory, but it happens on any file in any directory.
I'm currently using Neovim on windows 11, with lazy.nvim package manager
I've currently tried:
- Running as administrator
- Running on different types of terminals
- Changing my neovim default terminal and giving it admin permissions in init.lua
- Changing files to full access on windows security/removing any "read-only" statuses
- Disabling all firewall/antivirus configurations
- Building from source instead of automatically
- Changing the LLM (tried claude sonnet 4 and chat-gpt-4o-mini)
I can edit files just fine through neovim and other plugins, but avante can't seem to get access, so I've come to you for help.
Thank you in advance!
To reproduce
Use AvanteAsk or AvanteChat to make edits to an open file
Expected behavior
Expected: Be able to make edits to the desired files I'm working on
Installation method
My lazy.nvim avante plugin file is:
return {
{
'yetone/avante.nvim',
dir = vim.fn.stdpath('data') .. '/lazy/avante.nvim', -- Point to local clone
event = 'VeryLazy',
build = 'powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File Build.ps1 -BuildFromSource true', -- Windows-specific build
dependencies = {
'stevearc/dressing.nvim',
'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim',
'MunifTanjim/nui.nvim',
'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons',
},
opts = {
-- add any opts here
-- for example
provider = "openai",
openai = {
endpoint = "https://api.openai.com/v1",
model = "gpt-4o-mini", -- your desired model (or use gpt-4o, etc.)
timeout = 30000, -- Timeout in milliseconds, increase this for reasoning models
temperature = 0,
max_completion_tokens = 8192, -- Increase this to include reasoning tokens (for reasoning models)
--reasoning_effort = "medium", -- low|medium|high, only used for reasoning models
},
windows = {
use_absolute_path = true, -- Critical for Windows path handling
wrap_line = true,
width = 30,
},
mappings = {
ask = '<leader>aa',
edit = '<leader>ae',
refresh = '<leader>ar',
},
behaviour = {
auto_set_keymaps = true,
auto_apply_diff_after_generation = true,
},
},
config = function(_, opts)
require('avante').setup(opts)
end,
},
}
Environment
Neovim version: 0.10.02
OS: Windows 11
package manager: `lazy.nvim
Repro
### My basic init.lua file is:
require("config.lazy")
--NVIM TREE CONFIG RULES
-- disable netrw at the very start of your init.lua
vim.g.loaded_netrw = 1
vim.g.loaded_netrwPlugin = 1
-- optionally enable 24-bit colour
vim.opt.termguicolors = true
vim.opt.shell = 'powershell.exe'
vim.opt.shellcmdflag = '-NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command'
vim.opt.shellquote = ''
vim.opt.shellxquote = ''
vim.opt.shellpipe = '>'
vim.opt.shellredir = '>'
root_dir = "C:\\Users\\guyri"
-- empty setup using defaults
require("nvim-tree").setup()
-- OR setup with some options
require("nvim-tree").setup({
sort = {
sorter = "case_sensitive",
},
view = {
width = 30,
},
renderer = {
group_empty = true,
},
filters = {
dotfiles = true,
},
})
--END OF NVIM TREE CONFIG RULES