Show all open buffers regardless of the "working directory"

[vakorol]

Hi!
Thanks for the plugin, it looks very nice and so far proved to be the most convenient of all the alternatives!

One thing that is bothering me though - I would like to see the list of all open buffers, not the buffers for files in the "current directory". The problem is - if I open Neovim in ~/repo/project1, then neo-tree will happily show all open buffers under the directory. If at some point I do :e ../project2/file.txt, then opening neo-tree won't even show that file, since it will still be listing the files under ~/repo/project1.

If I run with dir=/, to include all possible directories in the tree (because I can run nvim anywhere in the filesystem), then it works fine for a while, but at some point typing :e <TAB> starts showing the root of the filesystem, which is not what I'd expect it to do. I wrote "for a while" because the behavior is inconsistent and for some time :e <TAB> correctly shows the "current directory", but then it all of a sudden switches to /.

Can someone give a hint how to fix this? It would be great to have a setup where the tree lists all open buffers, nicely grouped by their parent directories, regardless of the "current project directory" but with :e pointing to it?

Thanks!

[vakorol]

Basically, i'm looking for an option for neo-tree to show all open buffers under the topmost common parent directory.

[pysan3]

Are you talking about the filesystem source or the buffers source?

[vakorol]

The buffers source, sorry for the confusion.

[pysan3]

You have bind_to_cwd = false for both filesystem and buffers source right?

[vakorol]

yes:

    {
        "nvim-neo-tree/neo-tree.nvim",
        branch = "v3.x",
        dependencies = {
          "nvim-lua/plenary.nvim",
          "nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons", -- not strictly required, but recommended
          "MunifTanjim/nui.nvim",
          -- "3rd/image.nvim", -- Optional image support in preview window: See `# Preview Mode` for more information
        },
        config = function ()
            require('neo-tree').setup {
                buffers = {
                    leave_dirs_open = true,
                    follow_current_file = {
                        enabled = true,
                        leave_dirs_open = true,
                    },
                    bind_to_cwd = false,
                },
                filesystem = {
                    bind_to_cwd = false,
                },
            }
        end
    },

[pysan3]

Hmm I really can't reproduce.

Could you add this to your init.lua and live for a while?
It should report when cwd changes, and please tell me what you did at that right moment.

vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("DirChanged", {
  callback = function(...)
    vim.print(string.format([[Dir Changed (%s): %s]], vim.fn.getcwd(), vim.inspect({ ... })))
  end,
})

[pysan3]

Also check that neo-tree is updated.

[vakorol]

Thanks! Will try monitor this.