carlhuda/janus — Issue #264: Can we get rid of the e > Edit / cd > Change Directory business? It's silly.
Author: rey-wright
Created: 2011-10-25 18:52:19+00:00
State: open

There are so many ways to open files (buffers, commands on top of split windows) and it's quite the disconnect to have just the couple that NERDTree supports actually open NERDTree, but the rest dont' do anything. On top of that, exclamations aren't supported to force edit for instance (Edit! isn't supported). Not only that, since when do I want to change my working directory when I edit a file? Would you cd directly into every folder you were working with inside the terminal? Doesn't make too much sense.

If you're going to do this, just let people open NERDTree manually, and give them the option to update NERDTree to the currently directory on a case by case basis, with an option of doing it automatically whenever NERDTree is opened manually for the (hopefully) few people that want it. Done.