Add as sibling function

[weilbith]

Hey people 👋🏾

I'm new to neo-tree.nvim and switching from nvim-tree.lua. A behavior I'm used to and where I think it makes sense is the adding a sibling feature. In fact if I call the "add" function, the relative path I'm adding to is the parent of the node under my cursor. So if my cursor is on a folder, I add to the parent of this folder (e.g. a new folder as sibling to the one under the cursor). In fact like if I'm on a file node, adding something will make it relative to the parent directory of this file.

My current workaround is a custom mapping that moves the cursor to the parent node and then I add something. Though I could extend this to also call the add function here. Though this whole custom code isn't perfect and I wanted to ask if someone thinks this could become a new optional behavior. What do you guys think?

[cseickel]

I think this custom command will do what you want:

    require("neo-tree").setup({
      filesystem = {
        window = {
          mappings = {
            ["a"] = function(state)
              local fs_actions = require("neo-tree.sources.filesystem.lib.fs_actions")
              local fs = require("neo-tree.sources.filesystem")

              local node = state.tree:get_node()
              local in_directory = node:get_parent_id() or node:get_id()
              local using_root_directory = state.path
              local callback = function(path)
                fs.show_new_children(state, path)
              end
              fs_actions.create_node(in_directory, callback, using_root_directory)
            end,
          }
        }
      }

[weilbith]

Great. That does the job! 👍🏾
Thank you very much for the quick help! 🤗