Nesting config files in virtual folders

[hinell]

The above is a VSCode plugin (file nesting config). The config hells is a well known issue of tools keeping their dot files at the root of the project. Would be handy to gather them into virtual folders.

[alex-courtis]

That would indeed be very useful functionality. Unfortunately it is very specific and does not belong in nvim-tree, which is a file explorer, not an IDE.

How could we possibly achieve such functionality in nvim-tree? Add API to nvim-tree to allow such behaviour. That would not be simple and it is unlikely ever to be built.

Practical solution: use a separate, for-purpose plugin such as tagbar (tags) or vista.vim (LSP) that deals with individual files in the desired manner.

[hinell]

@alex-courtis I'm fine with that! You are doing great job anyway!