Not opening in repository root

[gegoune]

Have noticed that tree does not open in repository's root in case such as:

1. ~/ $ nvim
   a. open file with Startify that is part of git repository
   b. invoke :NvimTreeFindFile — tree is opened with root still being ~ (I use vim vim-rooter to change nvim's pwd)
   c. close tree buffer with q (or any other way)
   d. invoke :NvimTreeFindFile again — tree correctly opened in buffer's repository root directory

1.a correctly changes nvim's directory; :pwd return repository's root directory for opened file so vim-rooter does its job.

Other than that - the best tree plugin there is! Thanks!

[kyazdani42]

thanks :)
well yes i've disabled git-rooter because it conflicted with this and other plugins too, but i know cwd startup is a bit wonky, a refactoring is definitely needed here.

[gegoune]

I have noticed while making your plugin lazy load that it would not work at all and had to put

vim.cmd "doautocmd NvimTree BufEnter *"

into packer's config function for nvim-tree. With that in place I had no problem with tree opening in repository root. Perhaps that info will help you somewhat.

Thanks for all your work on that plugin and treesitter!

[kyazdani42]

you're welcome :) well lazy loading is not working because of the way i setup nvim tree. I have to rework the setup tu be more lua like which would probably allow lazy loading

[gegoune]

With what you are doing in plugin/ I don't really need to lazy load it at all, just tried ink the past and came over this 'accidental fix' for root issue.

[maxigaz]

:NvimTreeToggle still opens in my home folder the first time; I have to close and reopen the file viewer to make it open the directory the file is at. (This happens when I'm trying to open a session from Startify, with buffers inside ~/.config/nvim.)

@cloggier I've tried your workaround, but I get the following error:

Error running config for nvim-tree.lua
Error in packer_compiled: Vim(lua):E5108: Error executing lua [string ":lua"]:52: [string "..."]:0: Vim(doautocmd):E216: No such group or event: NvimTree BufEnter *
Please check your config for correctness

Here's how I've set it up using Packer:

use {
  'kyazdani42/nvim-tree.lua',
  requires = {'kyazdani42/nvim-web-devicons', opt = true},
  config = function()
    vim.cmd([[doautocmd NvimTree BufEnter *]])
  end
}

Is this how you did it, or do I need to change anything?

[gegoune]

use {

'kyazdani42/nvim-tree.lua',

requires = {'kyazdani42/nvim-web-devicons', opt = true},

config = function()

vim.cmd([[doautocmd NvimTree BufEnter *]])

end

}

You are not lazy loading the plug-in. Try adding keys or cmd keys to packer (if I remember names well).

[maxigaz]

OK, I've tried the following:

use {
  'kyazdani42/nvim-tree.lua',
  requires = {'kyazdani42/nvim-web-devicons', opt = true},
  cmd = 'NvimTreeToggle',
  config = function()
    vim.cmd([[doautocmd NvimTree BufEnter *]])
  end
}

After running :PackerCompile and restarting Neovim, I no longer receive any errors, but running :NvimTreeToggle has the same results as before.

Edit: It looks like I also needed to run :PackerSync so that nvim-tree.lua can actually be lazy-loaded. So, after that, the sidebar of nvim-tree is always empty.

[gegoune]

Ah, sorry then, maybe something has changed internally since I had it working. No lazy loading it any more. Just waiting for git root bug to be fixed. :)

[gegoune]

@kyazdani42 I have noticed another interesting thing.

• start nvim in ~ directory, use fzf (or :e) to open file, open nvim-tree: no updating root to git root of opened file, still showing all files from ~

• start nvim from any git repository, open file in any git repository (not necessary one from where nvim was started) - root gets updated nicely for each file (including after opening file from some other git repository).

• start nvim from any directory but ~ but not git repository - shows cwd as root (works)

[kyazdani42]

there has been this issue for quite some time, i still have to rework some internals in order to handle that properly. Thing is there are many ways users expect neovim to handle their root path and taking them all into account is rather tedious.

[gegoune]

Since above refactor (I think) was merged in that issue was sorted out, Unfortunately after updating plugin today it broke again. When I open open nvim from ~, open some file and run NvimTreeFindFile nvm-tree's root is still ~.

[kyazdani42]

why is the plugin supposed to change the root ? it should update if a DirChanged autocmd is sent and update_cwd is set to true.

[gegoune]

Ah, sorry if I wasn't clear. I use rooter.nvim which changes cwd, that works, but as of today nvim-tree does not change its root, so it shows files all the way to my home directory.