Nvim-tree.lua: Not disable netrw

[stsewd]

Is there a reason why netrw is being disabled? gx doesn't work without it in other buffers.

https://github.com/kyazdani42/nvim-tree.lua/blob/3bcfc70ea6759f40cc12e31e20f8b6c36f9ed2ac/plugin/tree.vim#L6-L7

[kyazdani42]

well netrw opens automatically and it can conflict with other trees. I'll try and see if i can come up with a solution.

[kyazdani42]

Well i'm sorry but i cannot enable the netrw, i don't really use the gx option, if you really want to use it in other buffers, feel free to implement it :) I have to disable netrw because i really have no use for it and its conflicting a lot with my workflow

[stsewd]

Can we at least have an option for it? And btw, I'm writing a plugin to replace gx https://github.com/stsewd/gx-extended.vim if someone hits this, you can just install that plugin and gx should work just as the original gx in most cases.

[kyazdani42]

if you do not disable netrw then it will open every time you do vim $DIR which will not be convenient at all. What would be your use cases to keep netrw ?

[stsewd]

Mainly just to keep the original gx working. I don't use vim $DIR, so I'm fine if that doesn't work when enabling netrw.

[kyazdani42]

well you can patch it locally if you want, but it seems weird to me that a tree viewer provides that kind of feature anyway. You could provide a global mapper with your gx plugin and not depend on the gx behaviour of netrw which would seem more adapted imo.

[stsewd]

My plugin already maps gx globally, so I shouldn't need the original gx in most cases. But I think this should be mentioned in the docs at least, so users don't get a surprise when trying to use gx outside the tree.

[kyazdani42]

i'll add that then :)

[kristijanhusak]

Here's a mapping that will load netrw only on demand when using gx:

nnoremap gx :call <sid>open_url()<CR>

function! s:open_url() abort
  unlet! g:loaded_netrw
  unlet! g:loaded_netrwPlugin
  runtime! plugin/netrwPlugin.vim
  return netrw#BrowseX(expand('<cfile>'), netrw#CheckIfRemote())
endfunction