sort by modification date

[XedMada]

would be very handy for some uses. e.g. notational velocity replacement.

[jrdmcgr]

+1. I've been trying to figure out how to do this for the very same reason. I need a good console NV replacement.

[x2es]

+1
I am using sorting by date everywhere and it is very useful for me.

[Xuyuanp]

I tried to do this by myself. But I found it was almostly impossible after I read the source code.

[tebeka]

+1

[xinxingzhao]

+1

[hiberabyss]

+1

[AndrewRadev]

I created a fork of the plugin that enables sorting by access time: https://github.com/AndrewRadev/nerdtree/tree/sort-by-atime. The instructions on how to enable it and toggle it on or off, are at the top of the README.

I'm not making a PR, because it's a bit hacky. If Scrooloose wanted to implement the feature, I imagine he'd make a setting for a sorting callback or something, but I just toggle it with a global variable. It's also slow for large directories, since every single file needs to get stat-ed to get the access time, which means an extra shell-out. But, depending on your use case, you might find it useful.

[tadassce]

@AndrewRadev it's exactly what I needed, thanks!!!

[rizjoj]

+1

[xbot]

+1

[seanw2020]

Here's my workaround for NERDTree's lack of "timestamp sort":

:Ex /some/path/ (alternatively :Ve for vertical split or :Se for horizontal split)
s (to sort by time)
r (reverse order -- look for "Sorted by time reversed")
Enter (open your file)
:NerdTreeFind (navigates NERDTree to the currently open file)