Recursively expand a single directory node

[mikehaertl]

I'm missing an API method to expand a single directory node recursively. This would often be helpful when I only want to view a certain subtree of my project but don't want to expand everything.

I've seen api.tree.expand_all (expands all nodes) and api.node.open.edit (expands only first level). Maybe the latter could be improved with an options arg like api.node.open.edit({recursive = true}).

[alex-courtis]

That is a good use case.

I'm not quite understanding the nuance: E expand_all on a folder will expand all that folder's folders recursively.

Are you after something different?

[mikehaertl]

Oh, you're right. I think it was actually a recursive close for a single node that I was missing as W closes all nodes and <CR>/<BS> are not recursive.

In the end I somehow got confused and thought it was expand, so I avoided using E at all, which works perfectly fine.

Sorry for the noise. And not sure if the recursive close is something worth adding - or if I'm missing yet another existing feature.

[alex-courtis]

Sorry for the noise.

No need to apologise at all.

And not sure if the recursive close is something worth adding - or if I'm missing yet another existing feature.

Take a look at :help nvim-tree.api.tree.collapse_all() with keep_buffers set.