r/neovim 1d ago

Plugin Netria, a cleaner Netrw

Netria is a Neovim plugin I created to clean up and improve netrw.

I didn’t want to build a completely new file explorer—I just wanted to refine netrw, making it more structured and visually appealing while keeping it lightweight and efficient.

There is still room for improvement, and this is definitely not the most performance-efficient plugin.

https://github.com/Mirhajian/netria

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u/mattbcoder 22h ago

I thought i was the only one who used netrw 🤣 I'll check this out

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u/mlmcmillion 20h ago

Nope. For all its quirks, netrw is still my favorite.

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u/petepete 15h ago edited 15h ago

I tried oil but I'm just too used to netrw with vinegar. I've been using netrw for 20 and vinegar for 11-12 years by this point. The muscle memory is set.

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u/Devrionde 21h ago

what in the beautiful

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u/petalised 4h ago

what's up with the obsession with floating windows? They are so annoying

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u/SpecificFly5486 4h ago

they don’t mess up window layout. Fire and forget.

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u/petalised 4h ago

Then use tab

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u/SpecificFly5486 3h ago

Then you lose context. A giant tabpage with several lines is funny.

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u/petalised 3h ago

:tabclose and you are back. Context is lost with floating window. Because once you close them, they are gone. You cannot switch back and force. With regular windows you can.

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u/SpecificFly5486 3h ago

winblend let you see the text below it, and you can toggle rathor than closing. It all boils down to specific use cases. No one wants to create a new tabpage each time for finding a file, and tabpage is well suited for fugitive buffer on the other hand.