Is it possible to disable "auto cd"?

[olalonde]

I noticed that when I edit a file in a npm package, vim tree automatically changes directory to the root directory of the project (where the package.json file is located). Is it possible to disable this behavior? This is a bit annoying because I'm working on a mono repo with multiple npm packages and I would rather have vim tree auto cd to the root .git directory or not auto cd at all. Thanks.

[alex-courtis]

This is indeed undesirable behaviour, however nvim-tree will not do this by default.

What configuration have you set? update_focused_file and sync_root_with_cwd and actions.change_dir affect such behaviour.

[alex-courtis]

My workflow is simply to :cd new/path with sync_root_with_cwd enabled. That will trigger the tree root change to vim's new cwd.

[olalonde]

Thanks but I don't want that happening automatically because I often work in a monorepo while editing multiple packages at the same time and I don't want Nerd Tree to change every time I edit a file. It would be nice to be able to trigger that behavior manually though because it is sometimes useful. I'm not sure if it would require to implement a new command on this plugin (e.g. something like :NVimTreeSyncRootWithCwd).

[alex-courtis]

I see. That already exists:

:help nvim-tree.api.tree.change_root()

There are a couple of related API functions that you might find interesting.

[olalonde]

Sorry not too familiar with Vim scripting. I tried to type :nvim-tree.api.tree.change_root() and it obviously didn't work. I guess I would have to expose that function as an ex command in my config files? Thanks!

[alex-courtis]

As an ex command:
:lua require("nvim-tree.api").tree.change_root("/home/me")

See :help nvim-tree-mappings and wiki: on_attach