If directory is given as first argument, cd to it and open empty file instead of producing error

[DanielPower]

Description of the problem or steps to reproduce

Pass a directory to micro as the first argument, it will complain that you tried to open a directory.
Maybe this is just me, but my preferred behaviour would be for micro to use that directory as its working directory, and just open a blank file. So that I could then open files from that directory using Ctrl+O, or using the Filemanager plugin.

My workflow in Sublime and Atom is to open the project directory I'm going to be working in, and then open the files I want from the sidebar. Micro's filemanager plugin makes that almost possible, except that I have to change directory first and then open micro.

[progmem]

+1

I use a Bash-constructed fork (that I need to publish) of the idea presented in dankleiman/notebook. This works beautifully in Sublime where I can have it directly open the path and start saving files. Nano's behavior is to simply work from the current working directory, not the directory passed. Vim's default behavior is to just give you a directory listing in a buffer.

One important thing to consider is that Sublime would let us open not just one, but multiple directories. From what I can tell, Micro wants to work out of the current working directory. This presents the following questions:

• How do we handle a single directory passed?
• How do we handle multiple directories passed?

The first is simple: just os.Chdir to the directory and append an empty buffer. I'm taking a guess that plugins like Filebrowser will simply start with the current working directory when called. So, problem solved, right?

The second is the trickier part. How do we handle multiple directories? I could see a solution where a buffer would contain its WD, then when you switch buffers, read that WD and change the application CWD to match. Additionally, my understanding is that Micro can have plugins run on boot; how would these behave when presented with multiple working directories?

I could implement something straightforward using just one working directory, but we need to ask if this should be the intended effect. I would expect that if I can open one directory, that I can open multiple.