how to highlight current buffer in nvimtree

[tydra-wang]

Need help. I cannot find some thing like highlight_focused_file in document.

[kyazdani42]

:help nvim-tree.update_focused_file

[kyazdani42]

see :hi CursorLine and :help hl-CursorLine

[tydra-wang]

It seems like autocmd FileType NvimTree setlocal cursorline cannot work

[kyazdani42]

you should override NvimTreeCursorLine with :hi NvimTreeCursorLine guifg=some_color guibg=some_color or such in your theme.

[tydra-wang]

I just fixed it by adding setl cursorline to my mapping right after NvimTreeToggle, but still wondering why autocmd FileType not work.

local wk = require "which-key"
wk.register {
   ["<leader>e"] = { "<cmd>NvimTreeToggle<cr><cmd>setl cursorline<cr>", "explore nvim-tree" },
}

[kyazdani42]

not sure why you need to do this, but still if it works for you. You could also try to do that on BufEnter NvimTree_*