have you tried with build 3176? some changes were made to symlink handling since 3143.

There is no system package for Linux Mint yet (

Problem exists with latest version too:

possibly belongs to #2158 (how links are resolved)

Yeah, I presume that this is the same as #2158. Closing as duplicate.

I ask about this behavior on SO

This case cat ../test also does not work.

And this is slightly different. Here I try to refer to parent directory.

at #2158 I try refer to child directory.

And cat ../test case, as we can see, belongs to OS (shell?) functionality then to sublime itself

As far as I can tell, this primarily revolves around how ST does not unwrap symlinks when determining whether the Poole is already open. Referring to the parent directory with.. Should not make a difference there, although I didn't check your so issue. Also,.. Is not a shell feature as it is implemented on the file system level (on unix at least - Not sure about windows).