How to edit a directory in nerd-tree immediately?

[otakutyrant]

Supposing a is a directory, vim a with default config will open the a in netrw immediatly. Now I want to use nerd-tree instead. But neovim still edit the directory in netrw after I have set hijack_netrw = true in the minimal config. Is there a bug or whether did I mistake what hijack_netrw means?

[alex-courtis]

It sounds like you've encountered a bug. Please raise a Bug Report so that we may address this.

The recommended approach is to disable netrw completely :help nvim-tree.disable_netrw, that is done on line 1 and 2 of the minimal config.

disable_netrw and hijack_netrw have no effect when netrw is disabled. When netrw is enabled, hijack_netrw will replace netrw buffers with nvim-tree.

[alex-courtis]

You might like to look at Wiki: Open At Startup for some nice recipes.

[alex-courtis]

Continued in #2296