ignoring vim.o.winwidth

[pigoz]

Hi! I have a smaller screen and vim.o.winwidth = 80 in my config. That way I can see 80 columns when I change the focused window on vertical splits.

Unfortunately nvim-tree also becomes 80 columns (opened through :NvimTreeToggle<cr>), which I don't need. Is there someway to work around this?

[alex-courtis]

Hi! I have a smaller screen and vim.o.winwidth = 80 in my config. That way I can see 80 columns when I change the focused window on vertical splits.

Today I learned!

Unfortunately nvim-tree also becomes 80 columns

winwidth is global so unfortunately we cannot set it just for the nvim-tree window.

Experimentation revealed that we can turn winwidth off when the tree is open:

local events = require('nvim-tree.api').events
local Event = events.Event
events.subscribe(Event.TreeOpen, function()
  vim.o.winwidth = 20
end)
events.subscribe(Event.TreeClose, function()
  vim.o.winwidth = 80
end)

[pigoz]

Thank you! This looks very promising. But instead of the tree being open it should probably listen on the tree being focused.

For the time being I solved my issue with this plugin: https://github.com/beauwilliams/focus.nvim

[alex-courtis]

Interesting :FocusSplitNicely