how to call neo-tree actions from lua?

[Kamilcuk]

Hi, I would want to add some custom action to execute while neo-tree buffer is active. Not a mapping, rather for example to create a file when a menu item in the right mouse click menu is selected.

The mappins = { has many actions. How do I call these actions to do from a lua function to do in the context currently selected under the cursor inside neo-tree window?

For example in nvimtree I can do local api = require "nvim-tree.api" local node = api.tree.get_node_under_cursor api.fs.create(node()). How to do that in neo-tree?

There is execute https://github.com/nvim-neo-tree/neo-tree.nvim/blob/main/lua/neo-tree/command/init.lua#L46 but it only hides or shows, and it's for when neo-tree is not in focus. Neo-tree will be in focus.

There are commands https://github.com/nvim-neo-tree/neo-tree.nvim/blob/main/lua/neo-tree/sources/common/commands.lua#L107 , but how do I get the current state?

Thank you.

[Kamilcuk]

I think this works:

local manager = require "neo-tree.sources.manager"
local function call(cb)
  local state = manager.get_state_for_window()
  assert(state)
  return require("neo-tree.sources." .. state.name .. ".commands")[cb](state)
end

call("add_directory")

[pynappo]

I believe you could simplify this to:

local manager = require "neo-tree.sources.manager"
local state = manager.get_state_for_window()
assert(state)
state.commands.add_directory(state)

i plan to add types for the neotree state soon to make the stuff available in state easier to discover, i've just had a busy week so haven't gotten around to it yet.