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Neovim is a modal text editor forked off of Vim in 2014. Being modal means that you do not simply type text on screen, but the behavior and functionality of the editor changes entirely depending on the mode.

The most common and most used mode, the "normal mode" for Neovim is to essentially turn your keyboard in to hotkeys with which you can navigate and manipulate text. Several modes exist, but two other most common ones are "insert mode" where you type in text directly as if it was a traditional text editor, and "visual mode" where you select text.

Neovim seeks to enable further community participation in its development and to make drastic changes without turning it in to something that is "not Vim". Neovim also seeks to enable embedding the editor within GUI applications.

The Neovim logo by Jason Long is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

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Split window file explorer (feddit.nl)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After having the same config for ten years or so I’m looking to upgrade my (n)vim config. I changed over to init.lua, added lsp and treesitter and it’s awesome. Real big improvement!

I’m still looking for a replacement for my file explorer. I’m using vimfiler/unite.vim at the moment. I like it because it confirms to the vinegar/oil idea.

So I’m looking for a file explorer plugin which opens full window in a buffer, preferably written in lua with the possibility for a tree view and a per-window state so I can toggle it on and off in a window without having to navigate to the same place again. I haven’t found anything matching those criteria at the moment.

For example nvim-tree doesn’t allow for a state per window.

I tried oil.nvim but that doesn’t support a tree view.

Does anyone know of a plugin that satisfies my requirement? If nothing exists I’ll keep using vimfiler but I’m curious to see if anything else exists that implement these features.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Maybe chadtree? I've never used it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think neo-tree matches your requirements https://github.com/nvim-neo-tree/neo-tree.nvim (There is also a list of file explorer plugins here https://github.com/rockerBOO/awesome-neovim/blob/main/README.md#file-explorer)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks! At first glance it like it supports the things I want. Going to experiment with it this evening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Imo a file explorer is overrated for neovim. You usually know your files so I just navigate around with telescope. To create a file or directory i just simply use netrw. Here is a good guide on how to learn that properly: netrw guide. Moving files might be a little annoying so I just use the command line from lua with :!mv ...