Visual/bulk operations concerns

[Uanela]

I've lately updated to latest nvim-tree version so that I could get access to the visual/bulk operations.

But I noticed that it doesn't actual works in visual mode, e.g: select files in visual mode and do something, it only works if I for example do in bunch of files for copy and so on.

I haven't delved deep into the code to understand if this is limitation or was the best thing we could get at the time the PR was submitted?

[alex-courtis]

There is indeed quite limited support:

: ; grep -E "v\(func" /home/alex/src/nvim-tree/3327/lua/nvim-tree/api/impl.lua
  api.fs.copy.node                             = ev(function(e, n) e.clipboard:copy(n) end)
  api.fs.cut                                   = ev(function(e, n) e.clipboard:cut(n) end)
  api.fs.remove                                = _v(function(n) require("nvim-tree.actions.fs.remove-file").fn(n) end)
  api.fs.trash                                 = _v(function(n) require("nvim-tree.actions.fs.trash").fn(n) end)
  api.marks.toggle                             = ev(function(e, n) e.marks:toggle(n) end)

I have also found myself trying to perform actions in visual mode that just... don't exist.

It was built to be extensible and we should add more support. Those cases were just the obvious first ones.

@Uanela what new visual functions do you think would be most valuable?

[Uanela]

Happy to hear you @alex-courtis.

the visual functions I am thinking about are:

• Visually select nodes and then make an operations, e.g: copy, move or delete. kind of like Oil do.

I think this will feel more natural and expected then * n files.

[alex-courtis]

We have copy c and delete d however we are missing move.

Move is something I would definitely use: cut then paste just isn't working for me.

What other oil operations are useful?