Neo-tree is a Neovim plugin to browse the file system and other tree like structures in whatever style suits you, including sidebars, floating windows, netrw split style, or all of them at once!
This screenshot shows Neo-tree opened in the traditional sidebar layout:
Neo-tree filesystem screenshot, Netrw Style
The below screenshot shows Neo-tree opened "netrw style" (:Neotree position=current). When opened in this way, there is more room so the extra
detail columns can be shown. This screenshot also shows how the contents can be
sorted on any column. In this example, we are sorted on "Size" descending:
The biggest and most important feature of Neo-tree is that we will never knowingly push a breaking change and interrupt your day. Bugs happen, but breaking changes can always be avoided. When breaking changes are needed, there will be a new branch that you can opt into, when it is a good time for you.
See What is a Breaking Change? for details.
See Changelog 3.0 for breaking changes and deprecations in 3.0.
Aside from being polite about breaking changes, Neo-tree is also focused on the little details of user experience. Everything should work exactly as you would expect a sidebar to work without all of the glitchy behavior that is normally accepted in (neo)vim sidebars. I can't stand glitchy behavior, and neither should you!
- Neo-tree won't let other buffers take over its window.
- Neo-tree won't leave its window scrolled to the last line when there is plenty of room to display the whole tree.
- Neo-tree does not need to be manually refreshed
(set
use_libuv_file_watcher = true) - Neo-tree can intelligently follow the current file
(set
follow_current_file.enabled = true) - Neo-tree can sync its clipboard across multiple trees, either globally
(within the same Neovim instance) or universally (across all Neovim
instances). Try
clipboard.sync = "global" | "universal". - Neo-tree is thoughtful about maintaining or setting focus on the right node
- Neo-tree windows in different tabs are completely separate
respect_gitignoreactually works!
Note
Neo-tree is meant to be smooth, efficient, stable, and intuitive. If you find anything janky, slow, broken, or unintuitive, please open an issue so we can fix it.
Neo-tree currently supports Neovim 0.8 and onwards.
This plugin relies upon these two excellent library plugins:
- MunifTanjim/nui.nvim for all UI components, including the tree!
- nvim-lua/plenary.nvim for backend utilities, such as scanning the filesystem.
There are also some optional plugins that work with Neo-tree:
- nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons for file icons.
- Crysthamus/nvim-file-operations or antosha417/nvim-lsp-file-operations for LSP-enhanced renames/etc.
- folke/snacks.nvim for image previews, see Preview Mode section.
- snacks.rename can also work with Neo-tree
- 3rd/image.nvim for image previews.
- If both snacks.nvim and image.nvim are installed. Neo-tree currently will try to preview with snacks.nvim first, then try image.nvim.
- s1n7ax/nvim-window-picker for
_with_window_pickerkeymaps.
vim.pack.add({
{
src = 'https://github.com/nvim-neo-tree/neo-tree.nvim',
version = vim.version.range('3')
},
-- dependencies
"https://github.com/nvim-lua/plenary.nvim",
"https://github.com/MunifTanjim/nui.nvim",
-- optional, but recommended
"https://github.com/nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons",
})return {
{
"nvim-neo-tree/neo-tree.nvim",
branch = "v3.x",
dependencies = {
"nvim-lua/plenary.nvim",
"MunifTanjim/nui.nvim",
"nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons", -- optional, but recommended
},
lazy = false, -- neo-tree will lazily load itself
}
}lazy.nvim example with all optional plugins:
return {
{
"nvim-neo-tree/neo-tree.nvim",
branch = "v3.x",
dependencies = {
"nvim-lua/plenary.nvim",
"MunifTanjim/nui.nvim",
"nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons",
},
},
{
"Crysthamus/nvim-file-operations",
-- branch = "compat" -- if you are on Neovim <= 0.10
dependencies = {
"nvim-neo-tree/neo-tree.nvim", -- makes sure that this loads after Neo-tree.
},
config = function()
require("nvim-file-operations").setup()
end,
},
{
"s1n7ax/nvim-window-picker",
version = "2.*",
config = function()
require("window-picker").setup({
filter_rules = {
include_current_win = false,
autoselect_one = true,
-- filter using buffer options
bo = {
-- if the file type is one of following, the window will be ignored
filetype = { "neo-tree", "neo-tree-popup", "notify" },
-- if the buffer type is one of following, the window will be ignored
buftype = { "terminal", "quickfix" },
},
},
})
end,
},
}Packer.nvim example:
use({
"nvim-neo-tree/neo-tree.nvim",
branch = "v3.x",
requires = {
"nvim-lua/plenary.nvim",
"MunifTanjim/nui.nvim",
"nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons", -- optional, but recommended
}
})mini.deps example:
local add = MiniDeps.add
add({
source = 'nvim-neo-tree/neo-tree.nvim',
checkout = 'v3.x',
depends = {
"nvim-lua/plenary.nvim",
"MunifTanjim/nui.nvim",
"nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons", -- optional, but recommended
}
})See doc/install.sh and doc/install.ps1 for POSIX/Windows respectively.
Try :Neotree to open Neo-tree as a sidebar, and press ? while in Neo-tree to
open the keyboard help.
Tip
You can :checkhealth neo-tree to ensure you have all the required
dependencies. It can also check that your config table looks correct. This is
still in its early stages, so please file issues if you'd like to see more
checks added or a check isn't working properly.
require('neo-tree').setup({
-- options go here
})💤 lazy.nvim/Neovim distro users:
The table passed into setup() has a type of neotree.Config. If you're on a
distro using lazy.nvim (e.g. LazyVim) or you just like the syntax, you might
want to consider using lazy.nvim's opts instead:
return {
"nvim-neo-tree/neo-tree.nvim",
branch = "v3.x",
dependencies = {
"nvim-lua/plenary.nvim",
"MunifTanjim/nui.nvim",
"nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons", -- optional, but recommended
},
lazy = false, -- neo-tree will lazily load itself
---@module 'neo-tree'
---@type neotree.Config
opts = {
-- options go here
}
}Note
You do not need to call setup() for Neo-tree and its commands to work. setup() is only for configuration.
Example configuration featuring many interesting settings:
vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>e", "<Cmd>Neotree<CR>")
require("neo-tree").setup({
close_if_last_window = false, -- Close Neo-tree if it is the last window left in the tab
popup_border_style = "NC", -- or "" to use 'winborder' on Neovim v0.11+
clipboard = {
sync = "none", -- or "global"/"universal" to share a clipboard for each/all Neovim instance(s), respectively
},
enable_git_status = true,
enable_diagnostics = true,
open_files_do_not_replace_types = { "terminal", "trouble", "qf" }, -- when opening files, do not use windows containing these filetypes or buftypes
open_files_using_relative_paths = false,
sort_case_insensitive = false, -- used when sorting files and directories in the tree
sort_function = nil, -- use a custom function for sorting files and directories in the tree
-- sort_function = function (a,b)
-- if a.type == b.type then
-- return a.path > b.path
-- else
-- return a.type > b.type
-- end
-- end , -- this sorts files and directories descendantly
default_component_configs = {
container = {
enable_character_fade = true,
},
indent = {
indent_size = 2,
padding = 1, -- extra padding on left hand side
-- indent guides
with_markers = true,
indent_marker = "│",
last_indent_marker = "└",
highlight = "NeoTreeIndentMarker",
-- expander config, needed for nesting files
with_expanders = nil, -- if nil and file nesting is enabled, will enable expanders
expander_collapsed = "",
expander_expanded = "",
expander_highlight = "NeoTreeExpander",
},
icon = {
folder_closed = "",
folder_open = "",
folder_empty = "",
provider = function(icon, node, state) -- default icon provider utilizes nvim-web-devicons if available
if node.type == "file" or node.type == "terminal" then
local success, web_devicons = pcall(require, "nvim-web-devicons")
local name = node.type == "terminal" and "terminal" or node.name
if success then
local devicon, hl = web_devicons.get_icon(name)
icon.text = devicon or icon.text
icon.highlight = hl or icon.highlight
end
end
end,
-- The next two settings are only a fallback, if you use nvim-web-devicons and configure default icons there
-- then these will never be used.
default = "*",
highlight = "NeoTreeFileIcon",
use_filtered_colors = true, -- Whether to use a different highlight when the file is filtered (hidden, dotfile, etc.).
},
modified = {
symbol = "[+]",
highlight = "NeoTreeModified",
},
name = {
trailing_slash = false,
use_filtered_colors = true, -- Whether to use a different highlight when the file is filtered (hidden, dotfile, etc.).
use_git_status_colors = true,
highlight = "NeoTreeFileName",
},
git_status = {
symbols = {
-- Change type
added = "", -- or "✚"
modified = "", -- or ""
deleted = "✖", -- this can only be used in the git_status source
renamed = "", -- this can only be used in the git_status source
-- Status type
untracked = "",
ignored = "",
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