marks for quick directory tree traversal

[tthkbw]

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mini.files

Description

I am test driving mini.files to replace Vifm as my neovim file manager. I have futzed around a bit and now having it working quite well with a couple of mappings I found in these pages.

However, one feature I am missing is marks. That is, the ability to mark a directory location with 'ma' and go to that mark with 'a. This is particularly useful if the marks can be persistent between invocations of neovim--so allowing configuration of marks associated with directories in the .setup().

Any possibility for this feature?

[echasnovski]

Thanks for the suggestion!

I don't think adding marks in 'mini.files' will be done, mostly because it would require substantial addition to the code.

At the moment I am working on a new module which will allow creating persistent sets of labelled files and directories. This might be a better fit for this workflow. It won't be exactly the same as you describe, but close.

I'll think about this in the meantime.

[tthkbw]

Thanks for the quick reply! I look forward to your future work on mini.files.

Your work is valuable to the neovim community and I really appreciate it. It won't be long until I have a 'pure' Mini neovim init.lua.

[echasnovski]

So 'mini.visits' is a released thing now. It has the functionality to persistently add labels to paths and later reuse them. I think this will be the recommended way of utilizing the suggested "marks" workflow.

Closing as not planned (for 'mini.files').