Changing drive letter in NERDtree

Question

I started using NERDtree plugin on a a windows platform. I can't seem to find a way to change the drive letter. Going up all the way on the directory tree doesn't lead to the drive letter. Any ideas? (Yes, I know, it's going to be a simple answer)

Fundy

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Answer 1

If you want to go to your Z drive, for example, start it as:

:NERDTree Z:\

Marte

Answer 2

If you use:

:NERDTree d:\

in the NERDTree window you will see it works. But now if you open(and edit) a file with NERDTree you will find it can not be saved, because the current working directory has not changed'; it is still in the old directory!

So if you want change the drive in NERDTree I advise you to perform the following 2 steps:

cd drive:\

:NERDTree .

where drive is the drive letter you want to change to, and . means change the NERDTree directory to the current working directory.

Now you can use NERDTree opening (or editing)the file in new directory now.

Aureole

As an alternative solution, you can instead do set autochdir in your .vimrc, so that whenever you open a file (whether from NERDTree or otherwise), vim automatically does a cd to the path containing the file. – Cherida

Answer 3

Not directly related, but if anyone finds themselves here from Google, ":e <location>" works in nvim-tree.

I'm putting this here because that's how I got here.

Sacring