Shortcut to focus cwd after nagivating away

[jeanlucthumm]

Describe the solution you'd like If you navigate away from the current working directory using something like -, it would be nice to have a shortcut that roots the tree back to the cwd

This is also useful if you've change the cwd via :cd ... and would like the tree to focus the new directory

Describe alternatives you've considered Couldn't find any issues describing this, and I didn't see anything in the help menu

[alex-courtis]

I used use a custom action cd_dot for this. I stopped after we added restrict_above_cwd.

We could add an action:

    {
      key = ".",
      action = "cd_cwd",
      desc = "change tree root to vim's cwd",
    },

@kyazdani42 ?

[kyazdani42]

Doesnt:

*nvim-tree.update_cwd*
Changes the tree root directory on `DirChanged` and refreshes the tree.
  Type: `boolean`, Default: `false`

Already do that ?

[alex-courtis]

update_cwd changes the root nicely when you cd.

I think the user would like a way to change the root to cwd without having to explicitly change.

[jeanlucthumm]

I guess I could theoretically do :cd $PWD? But maybe the DirChanged doesn't fire on that cause technically the directory is still the same...

[alex-courtis]

But maybe the DirChanged doesn't fire

The only way to know would be to test ;)

Have you tried the action I specified above? It will go to vim.fn.getcwd(-1)

[alex-courtis]

Closing due to inactivity.