How to stop changing NvimTree root?

[lai32290]

When I open my nvim in folder MyProject and open the NvimTree (:NvimTreeToggle), it uses MyProject as root.

But when I gf to some import folder, like:

import { MyComponente } from './FolderWith2Files'

It shows the netrw and let me select the file that I wanna open, since that, when I open NvimTree again, the root become the FolderWith2Files instead of MyProject, but :pwd is still in MyProject and Telescope is also still looking to MyProject.

How can I make it stop changing root for NvimTree when I gf to a folder?

[alex-courtis]

How can I make it stop changing root for NvimTree when I gf to a folder?

Is gf a netrw command? Does it change vim's working directory?

Do you have nvim-tree.sync_root_with_cwd set? That will cause nvim-tree to change it's root when vim's cwd is changed.

Naive suggestion: use nvim-tree instead of netrw to select files etc.

[lai32290]

Is gf a netrw command? Does it change vim's working directory?
A: oh, sorry, actually it shows nvim-tree, I'm not using netrw as I know.

Do you have nvim-tree.sync_root_with_cwd set? That will cause nvim-tree to change it's root when vim's cwd is changed.
A: I don't think that I have this config set, at least it's not in my .setup({

I recorded a video here to demonstrate what is happening here, hope it can be more clear than my explanation 😅

Screen.Recording.2023-01-31.at.12.04.05.mov

[alex-courtis]

I think it is netrw: :help netrw-gf

That will open the directory in netrw, which is hijacked by nvim-tree. Set hijack_netrw = false to demonstrate this.

This is working as intended: you are effectively opening a directory in nvim-tree.

You could gf to the file itself, rather than the containing directory, which will open a new file buffer as you might expect.