nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua

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A file explorer tree for neovim written in lua

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Dominant language: Lua
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Last GitHub push: Sep 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3355 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Replace Deprecated nvim_win_set_width Open

upstream: neovim

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3344 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 7, 2026
Experimental Features: `session_restore_nvim` Open

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3343 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 4, 2026
[Feature]: Add file/node specific metadata/attributes by filetype Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3341 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Migrate To docgen.nvim Open

documentation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3330 · 1 comment · Opened May 15, 2026
letters not visible in window picker with vim._core.ui2 and laststatus=3 Open

bug reproduced

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3323 · 12 comments · Opened Apr 26, 2026
feat: default to opening last accessed window when window picker is disabled Open

PR please regression

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3321 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 24, 2026
Memory leak when file watcher enabled on Windows Open

bug OS Windows OS Windows PowerShell performance PR please

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3292 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 20, 2026
Handle git.timeout For All Git Calls Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3278 · Opened Feb 23, 2026
Display line count next to file names Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3274 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 19, 2026
Documentation: luals Annotations And Help Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3254 · Opened Jan 30, 2026
Bug: `vim.system():wait()` fails with "bad argument #1 to 'wait'" on Neovim 0.11.5 Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3251 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 23, 2026
HTML Help Generation Open

documentation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3246 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 22, 2026
add enable/disable option to api.tree.toggle functions Open

API feature request PR please

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3237 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 6, 2026
CursorLine Artifacts Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3230 · Opened Dec 21, 2025
Multi Instance: Refactor: move core.get_cwd function into explorer Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3224 · Opened Dec 13, 2025
Update Installation wiki w/ more notes on Glyph rendering Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 30/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3218 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 20, 2025
root folder `/` not visible Open

bug reproduced

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3212 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 11, 2025
Prevent nvim-tree From Polluting Jump Lists Open

feature request PR please QOL

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3208 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 19, 2025
View Currently Enabled Filters Open

feature request PR please QOL

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3204 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 28, 2025
hide the cursor in nvim-tree buffer Open

feature request PR please QOL

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3194 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 23, 2025
Persist the "filter options" over the session lifecycle Open

feature request PR please QOL

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3186 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2025
Falling to first folder on path, e.g: nvim project/packages/docs, shows docs first and when open a file falls to project. Open

feature request QOL

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3182 · 13 comments · Opened Aug 10, 2025
Migrate To vim.pack Open

documentation PR please

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 65/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3179 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 8, 2025
repeated calls to git rev-parse --show-toplevel for untracked directories Open

bug performance regression reproduced

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3171 · 13 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2025
Creating a file in deeply nested folders resets nvim-tree scroll position Open

invalid

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3164 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 5, 2025
Live Filter not working after 0a06f65bf06157972f20ca1dee03c97a0efcb188 for floating config Open

bug regression reproduced

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3162 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 2, 2025
Multi Instance: Validate Object Lifecycle Open

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3149 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 15, 2025
Multi Instance: File Popup handle multiple windows Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3148 · Opened Jun 15, 2025
Customizable filter composition logic Open

feature request PR please QOL

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3119 · 2 comments · Opened May 2, 2025
Migrate from google-github-actions/release-please-action to googleapis/release-please-action Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3111 · Opened Apr 20, 2025
Multi Instance: Events Pass winid Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3110 · Opened Apr 20, 2025
nvim-tree.lua destroys split pattern, and now show the opened buffer Open

bug reproduced

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3083 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 10, 2025
Enable `undefined-field` Check Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3062 · Opened Feb 1, 2025
Enable `undefined-field` Check: Strongly Type NodeIterator Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3061 · Opened Feb 1, 2025
git submodule icons in nvim-tree Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#3038 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 23, 2024
Application slow closing directories with .git contained Open

awaiting feedback bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#2997 · 12 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 9, 2024
Multi Instance: Refactor: move tree modifiers actions to Explorer Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#2986 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 3, 2024
Move Renderer's Builder To A Member, Instantiated Once Open

performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#2985 · Opened Nov 3, 2024
Cache FileNode Icon And Highlight Open

performance

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#2984 · Opened Nov 3, 2024
Performance Investigation: rg Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#2939 · Opened Oct 5, 2024
Unwanted Group Population Open

bug reproduced

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#2936 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 30, 2024
Opening file in new tab, replaces previous tab file with NvimTree Open

bug PR please

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#2933 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 28, 2024
Multi Instance: Refactor: move nvim-tree.lua functions into Explorer Open

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#2926 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 23, 2024
Multi Instance: Refactor: Split RootNode And Explorer Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#2924 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 23, 2024
Multi Instance: Refactor: move core.get_nodes_starting_line function into explorer Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#2914 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2024
Memory leak and hanging when using the Live Filter feature Open

awaiting feedback bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#2902 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 10, 2024
Documentation: API luals Annotations Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#2896 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2024
Don't Close Window On fs.remove() When Last Buffer In Window Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#2861 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 3, 2024
Multi Instance: Refactor: remove simple core.get_explorer() usages Open

nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua#2836 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 14, 2024

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