editree.nvim

🚧 This plugin is still in early stages of development 🚧

A Neovim plugin that combines the power of oil.nvim with the aesthetics of your favorite tree viewer. Editree allows you to edit your filetree like a regular Vim buffer to perform filesystem operations in an intuitive way.

Requirements

Neovim nightly
A supported tree viewer plugin: currently, only fern.vim is supported
oil.nvim

Installation

Install using your favorite package manager and call the setup function. Here's an example for lazy.nvim:

{
  "smjonas/editree.nvim",
  config = {},
  dependencies = {
    -- You can also extract your config for oil.nvim or your tree viewer into separate files,
    -- lazy.nvim will load the config from there.
    { "stevearc/oil.nvim", config = {} },
    "lambdalisue/fern.vim",
  }
}

packer.nvim

require("packer").startup(function(use)
  use {
    "smjonas/editree.nvim",
    config = function()
      require("editree").setup()
    end,
    requires = {
      {
        "stevearc/oil.nvim",
        config = function()
          require("oil").setup()
        end,
      },
      { "lambdalisue/fern.vim" },
    },
  }
end)

Quick start

To get started, first open a supported tree viewer such as fern.vim from your current file / directory. Then use the :Editree open or :Editree open command to open editree in the current buffer. To modify the filesystem, simply modify the lines in the buffer, then save the buffer. You will be prompted to confirm the filesystem operations before they are executed.

Editree does not override existing keymappings in the tree viewer. Instead, it is recommended to create a keymap that enters / exits "editree mode". For example, you could use the following mapping to toggle editree when pressing the F1 key:

vim.keymap.set("n", "<F1>", "Editree toggle", { desc = "Toggle editree" })