Silently open a new tab

[TroySigX]

Please add an option to open a tab (when pressing ) silently. That is, staying on the current buffer rather than jumping to new tab's buffer.

Suggestion: create a new mapping to this new feature.

[alex-courtis]

To confirm:

• user presses, say, ts on a file
• new tab is opened
• new tab contains one window with a new buffer with the file
• new tab is not visible as the user stays on the current tab
• tree window remains focused

You should be able to do that yourself with a custom action, see :help nvim-tree-mappings and user's Recipes

If you can't please reopen / comment.

[TroySigX]

I'm pretty new to lua. Can you show me the code?

[alex-courtis]

I'm pretty new to lua. Can you show me the code?

Take a look at the recipes linked above. Fix tab titles when opening file in new tab might be a good start.

[TroySigX]

Thank you very much! I will do that. But I do believe that it will be much helpful if this mapping is in the official code.

[alex-courtis]

Thank you very much! I will do that. But I do believe that it will be much helpful if this mapping is in the official code.

We are no longer adding specific new functionality: https://github.com/nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#roadmap

nvim-tree has suffered from feature creep and will only add QOL features that cannot be achieved via API.

[TroySigX]

If not, can you please provide the config? I believe this feature is super useful for many users.

[alex-courtis]

Here's a quick implementation. You might need to tweak it a bit to better suit your needs.

local function open_tab_silent(node)
  local api = require("nvim-tree.api")

  api.node.open.tab(node)

  vim.cmd.tabprev()
end
---
      mappings = {
        list = {
          { key = "ts", action = "open_tab_silent", action_cb = open_tab_silent },

[TroySigX]

Thank you so much!

[alex-courtis]

Glad to hear this worked.

Could you please add your final solution to the Recipes page?

I don't think the draft works very well around multiple tabs...