how to stop nvimtree from opening on switching buffers

[WilsonOh]

Hi, I don't know if this is because of a recent update, but whenever I switch to a buffer in another directory using bnext or bprevious, nvimtree always opens up on every switch.

This is my setup file for nvimtree:

nvimtree.setup {
  filters = { custom = { '*.tmp', '.git' } },
  disable_netrw = true,
  hijack_netrw = true,
  open_on_setup = true,
  ignore_ft_on_setup = { 'alpha' },
  open_on_tab = false,
  hijack_cursor = true,
  update_cwd = true,
  update_focused_file = { enable = true, update_cwd = true, ignore_list = {} },
  system_open = {
    cmd = nil,
    args = {},
  },
  view = {
    width = 25
    side = 'left',
    mappings = { custom_only = false, list = {} },
  },
  renderer = {
    indent_markers = { enable = true, icons = { corner = '└ ', edge = '│ ', none = '  ' } },
  },
}

I found that setting update_focused_file.update_cwd to false disables that behavior, but I also lose the automatic directory switching which I really like.

Is there any way to keep the automatic directory switching while disabling nvimtree from opening up on every buffer switch?

neovim version:

NVIM v0.8.0-dev+1841-g3cd22a348
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3

nvimtree commit: 104292c

Thank you!

[alex-courtis]

replicated, introduced at b08003f

[alex-courtis]

#1328

We are not obeying with_open during find_file.

change_root should not call lib.open when not with_open. In that case it should just call change_dir.fn(....

I did not test nvim-tree closed when testing the change.

@lixvbnet please create a PR to fix.

[WilsonOh]

Ah, should I just wait for an update or is there a quick and dirty fix for this?

[alex-courtis]

It's not a one line change...

nightly tag ( 84c2bd7 right now ) is before this change.

[WilsonOh]

Ok, thank you!

[lixvbnet]

#1328

We are not obeying with_open during find_file.

change_root should not call lib.open when not with_open. In that case it should just call change_dir.fn(....

I did not test nvim-tree closed when testing the change.

@lixvbnet please create a PR to fix.

well, I didn't test that case either... PR is on the way

[lixvbnet]

PR #1365 does the fix. Replaced lib.open calls in M.change_root.
with_open is checked in find_file before calling M.change_root.

[alex-courtis]

Thanks for the fast fix @lixvbnet . Unfortunately I won't be able to review until next weekend.

@WilsonOh please test the fix above.

[WilsonOh]

Yup, works great on my machine. Thank you @lixvbnet!

[kylo252]

This also worked for me

local setup_opts = {
  --- 
  hijack_directories = {
    enable = false,
  }
}