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Replace defx with a better file explorer/tree. #1

Open CyberMango opened 4 years ago

CyberMango commented 4 years ago

Defx is the current file tree plugin. It works fine after heavy configurations, but it still aint perfect. Remaining issues:

tabedit from inside of defx opens the file in the defx buffer window.
cant recursivley open already openend dirs.
no easy way to open a dir like in an explorer.
file open might move to different tab if file is opened there (due to drop's behavior).
In general, requires programming too much by myself due to missing features.

should be replaced with a better plugin. Options:

tree.nvim: supposed to be fast. might be buggy due to it being in cpp. Not yet finished.
coc-explorer: looks good. Uses coc which is already installed. Not yet finished.

CyberMango commented 2 years ago

Defx has entered maintenance mode. https://github.com/kyazdani42/nvim-tree.lua has sort of become the standard now. It looks good - featureful, popular and therefore probably stable, written in lua so no external deps and less clunkiness. seems to require configurations but not as heavily as defx.