Option to use file/directory names instead of absolute paths for notifications #2270
Labels
feature request
PR please
nvim-tree team does not have the bandwidth to implement; a PR will be gratefully appreciated
QOL
Quality Of Life Improvement
Issue
When using a notification plugin like vim-notify that has floating window notifications, using absolute paths in the messages of the notifications take up too much of the available horizontal window space, which could be quite distracting.
Feature Request
Having shorter notification messages that will take up less of the window space when using notification manager plugin with floating windows.
Potential Solution
Adding a boolean option to
opts.notify
that will be set to false by default. When enabled it will have the file system actions use file/directory names in the notification messages, and use absolute paths by default.Drawbacks
When the option for using file/directory names is enabled, people who are using
nvim-tree.api
, more specifically the file system actions API, without visual context of the current file system, the notification messages might be quite ambiguous if there are files or directories with the same name within their file system. However, I don't believe that this is a significant limitation by any means, since the proposed solution will not be a breaking change.References
#2266
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