brodir.vim

Path navigator designed to work with Vim's built-in mechanisms and complementary plugins.

Premise

I've been using vim-dirvish for many years now and have been slowly customising it as Neovim has evolved and gained new features: floating windows, advanced decorations, etc.

It is now customised so much that it is no longer the same plugin and the feature set is quite different. The main difference being that it has been completely ported to Lua and relies on heavy use of the Neovim API with minimal use of vim.cmd. Any feature that heavily relied on Ex commands has been removed, which is mostly Shdo and Arglist related features.

Note: I use this plugin personally and don't currently aim to support it for wider public use. Issues probably won't be actioned but PR's are always welcome.

Features

• Each line is just a filepath
• Never modifies the filesystem
• Uses floating windows
• Highlight open buffers in directory listing
• Git status decorations
• Icons

Concepts

Lines are filepaths

Each Brodir buffer contains only filepaths, hidden by conceal.

• Use plain old y to yank a path, then feed it to :r or :e or whatever.
• Sort with :sort, filter with :global. Hit R to reload.
• :set ft=brodir on any buffer to enable Brodir features:

  git ls-files | vim +'setf brodir' -
  

Credits

Fork of vim-dirvish by Justin M. Keyes which in turn was originally forked (and completely rewritten) from filebeagle by Jeet Sukumaran.