lf.vim

Heavily inspired by ranger.vim

LF integration in vim and neovim

Installation

Install it with your favorite plugin manager. Example with vim-plug:

    Plug 'elijahdanko/lf.vim'

Optional dependency

If you use neovim, you may want to add bclose.vim plugin (see a section below):

    Plug 'rbgrouleff/bclose.vim'

How to use it

The default shortcut for opening LF is <leader>f (\f by default) To disable the default key mapping, add this line in your .vimrc or init.vim: let g:lf_map_keys = 0

then you can add a new mapping with this line: map <leader>f :Lf<CR>.

The command for opening LF in the current file's directory is :Lf. Vim will open the selected file in the current window. To open the selected file in a new tab instead use :LfNewTab.

For opening LF in the current workspace, run :LfWorkingDirectory. Vim will open the selected file in the current window. :LfWorkingDirectoryNewTab will open the selected file in a new tab instead.

List of commands:

Lf // open current file by default
LfCurrentFile // Default LF behaviour
LfCurrentDirectory
LfWorkingDirectory

// open always in new tabs
LfNewTab
LfCurrentFileNewTab
LfCurrentDirectoryNewTab
LfWorkingDirectoryNewTab

// open tab, when existant or in new tab when not existant
LfCurrentFileExistingOrNewTab
LfCurrentDirectoryExistingOrNewTab
LfWorkingDirectoryExistingOrNewTab

The old way to make vim open the selected file in a new tab was to add let g:lf_open_new_tab = 1 in your .vimrc or init.vim. That way is still supported but deprecated.

Opening LF instead of netrw when you open a directory

If you want to see vim opening LF when you open a directory (ex: nvim ./dir or :edit ./dir), please add this in your .(n)vimrc.

let g:NERDTreeHijackNetrw = 0 // add this line if you use NERDTree
let g:lf_replace_netrw = 1 // open LF when vim open a directory

In order for this to work you need to install the bclose.vim plugin (see above).

Setting an other path for the temporary file

lf.vim uses a temporary file to store the path that was chosen, /tmp/chosenfile by default. This can be a problem if you do not have write permissions for the /tmp directory, for example on Android. There is a configuration variable for this called g:lf_choice_file, this must be set to the path for a file that doesn't yet exist (this file is created when choosing a file and removed afterwards).

Setting a custom LF command

By default LF is opened with the command lf but you can set an other custom command by setting the g:lf_command_override variable in your .(n)vimrc.

For instance if you want to display the hidden files by default you can write:

let g:lf_command_override = 'lf -command "set hidden"'

Optional vim or nvim built-in terminal configuration

For the sake of saving screen estate you probably want to add a (TermOpen)TerminalOpen hook to your (n)vimrc like:

autocmd! TermOpen
autocmd  TermOpen * setlocal laststatus=0 noruler norelativenumber nonumber showtabline=0 signcolumn=no
      \| autocmd BufLeave <buffer> setlocal laststatus=2 ruler number relativenumber showtabline=2 signcolumn=yes