kevinhwang91
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4 years ago Thanks for your affirmation. The motivation I create this plugin is lacking a modern file manager in Neovim like other GUI editors such as Visual Studio Code. So floating is necessary!
I usually use Ranger in the Shell env and love its high extension, so I read the source code in-depth and found it's very easy to make Ranger adapt to Neovim via RPC.
The other file explorers/managers are only live in Neo/vim or be hard to extend like nnn, lf, and so on because they are written by static language. Although Ranger is written by Python slower than C and Go, I can use some hack tech like Monkey Patch to be a boss in Ranger and do whatever I want to, so the User experience is better than others.
Some code inside Ranger like vcs is slow and bad design, maybe I will override in rnvimr to get better experience, this is next plan.
Thank you for your work in this plugin. It does work wonderfully and seems very polished. Neovim's floating window capabilities are in fact surprisingly usefull.
At first I was a bit sceptic, because I"m not a big fan of vim "explorer" type plugins like nerd tree and similar. I already used dirvish ore netranger for quick and simple things. And I dont like to install extra stuff to complicate.
I'm a big fan of ranger, and keep using it after all these years, although there are now "faster" alternatives in C, Go, Rust etc, but nothing beats ranger extensibility.
Since I can now use my ranger knowledge and customizations "inside" neovim, I can use two things I already know and compound it's value. No need to learn new things. It's a winner ! The C-t C-x C-v mappings are very well thought. You should "advertise" them better.
No more needs for hackish solutions with tmux windows and panes.