Since I disable netrw, ( :help netrw-noload) I found myself reaching gx for time to time. (dot command, which is mnemonic for the repeat command), do that on both selection or the actual line on a vim-dirvish buffer. And that is achieve by :Shdo, and it has a convenient key of. The important part is how natural these external programs interact with vim. Where it leverages the power of other programs in the terminal to do file manipulations, instead of trying to do everything by itself. The beauty of this plugin is it embraces the philosophy of VINE (Vim is not Emacs). I dropped vim-vinegar too because vim-dirvish have the - binding anyway, and most of the configuration of vim-vinegar is netrw specifics.

I even tried it in a 10K file repo, listing files via - still instant! Someone tested vim-dirvish against Nerdtree, you can see the difference. I don't use remote editing much so vim-dirvish is powerful enough to manage my workflow (It's actually faster than netrw ~ the author claims 2x, I feel it's faster than that - it's really instantaneous вљЎ) very useful on large codebase/repositories. This plugin has around 500~ LOC, compared to netrw's (11,000+ LOC).

I was searching for a solution to this problem too since I actually removed netrw from being loaded in vim completely and replace it with vim-dirvish. For example, they use a different file-manager like vim-dirvish TLDR: This is a solution for people who removed netrw( :help netrw-noload) in vim/neovim.

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