Floating window and preview

[fragov]

Is there any chance to have nvim-tree in floating window with files preview in next versions?

[kyazdani42]

i don't think this is a goal i wish to acomplish, although it should be quite easy to do with the api i'll provide in the next version i'm working on.

[wkcosmology]

+1 Unlike the splitting window, the floating window won't mess the window layout.

[defr0std]

Hi @kyazdani42, did you by any chance already add the

i don't think this is a goal i wish to acomplish, although it should be quite easy to do with the api i'll provide in the next version i'm working on.

Hi @kyazdani42, did you by chance already add the api you've mentioned?

[kyazdani42]

hi, haven't really had the time to refactor this part yet :)

[haphamdev]

Looking forward to this feature. I really miss this feature since switching from coc-explorer.

[stevenocchipinti]

Me too! coc-explorer is oddly the main thing keeping me from switching to neovim's native LSP 😅

[kyazdani42]

i guess i've rewritten the view handling enough so this can be tackled.
something like extending the view.lua file to handle a popup view basically :)
EDIT: with vim.api.nvim_open_win. I'm not sure the implication it would have on other modules but it should work the same (but maybe the open_file function would need some change too ?)

[tsakirist]

I would love that too, this is something that amazed me when I used coc-explorer and it's really missing from this great plugin.
It would be great if you could add this 😃

[fragov]

I tried to mess up with view.lua, but my LUA knowledge is almost zero. So I had to switch to lir. :(

[fragov]

Tried 3 another file-tree plugins and Telescope explorer and I'm back again. Too many bugs and issues. Last one had an interesting choice of hotkeys: d for creating a directory, and shift-d to delete a folder (and it even didn't ask if you really want to delete that folder). I deleted my work for full day today.

What a good way to learn how I can extend nvim-tree? Any suggestions?

[kyazdani42]

hi @fragov sorry for the late answer.
Well i believe the view should be refactored first before implementing this, i'm not sure it would be too easy to do in the current state of the plugin :)
This will land at some point