How to focus a new text buffer instead of the explorer

[IceSentry]

Sometimes I have the explorer focused but I use something like fzf-lua to navigate. It will open the file in a new buffer but my cursor will still be in the explorer. I tried a few auto cmds but I can't seem to figure out which event is relevant in this case.

Here's a video of what I mean. After I select the new file in fzf-lua the focused buffer is still the explorer.

WindowsTerminal_dz1KewI7pg.mp4

This also happens sometimes when I use something like :e path/to/file:row:col. It will open the file but since the buffer is not selected it won't move to the row/col. Again, only happens when the explorer is the currently focused buffer.

I'm usign the LazyVIm distro so I'm not entirely sure if that's an issue with LazyVim or just the snacks explorer.

[dpetka2001]

It's an incompatibility between the 2 addons. Snacks explorer is a floating window and it seems that fzf-lua doesn't focus on the file opened when it is called from a floating window (I'm just guessing here). Snacks picker can handle this (probably because they were created to interact with each other).

You can try the following configuration to achieve what you want (not sure if there's a better way)

return {
  {
    "ibhagwan/fzf-lua",
    opts = function(_, opts)
      opts.files.actions["enter"] = function(selected, fopts)
        local path = require("fzf-lua.path")
        local entry = path.entry_to_file(selected[1], fopts, false)

        require("fzf-lua.actions").file_edit(selected, fopts)

        local bufnr = vim.fn.bufnr(entry.path)
        local wins = vim.fn.win_findbuf(bufnr)
        local winid = wins[1]
        if winid then
          vim.api.nvim_set_current_win(winid)
        end
      end
    end,
  },
}

[IceSentry]

Hey, I see what this is trying to do but it seems like the "enter" action is never triggered for me? I tried adding a print in it and it never triggered. I see what it's trying to do though so I'll try and figure out a solution.

[drowning-cat]

Most likely the problem is here:

snacks.nvim/lua/snacks/win.lua

Lines 832 to 839 in bc0630e

	-- swap buffers when opening a new buffer in the same window
	vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("BufWinEnter", {
	group = self.augroup,
	nested = true,
	callback = function()
	return self:fixbuf()
	end,
	})

[drowning-cat]

Both, paste vim.schedule in your config.

[IceSentry]

I tried adding it to my config but unfortunately it didn't solve the issue for me. I added it in my config block of my snacks config but I also tried placing it in a few other places in my LazyVim config and it didn't seem to work either.

[IceSentry]

For the record, I decided to try neo-tree instead and it worked the way I expected for this workflow.

[drowning-cat]

Here is a working demo:

vim.env.LAZY_STDPATH = ".repro"
load(vim.fn.system("curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/folke/lazy.nvim/main/bootstrap.lua"))()

require("lazy.minit").repro({
  spec = {
    {
      "folke/snacks.nvim",
      keys = {
        { '<space>e', function() Snacks.explorer() end },
      },
      opts = {},
      config = function(_, opts)
        require('snacks').setup(opts)

        local win = require 'snacks.win'
        local show = win.show
        function win.show(w)
          local ret = show(w)
          vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('BufRead', {
            group = w.augroup,
            nested = true,
            callback = function()
              return w:fixbuf()
            end,
          })
          vim.api.nvim_clear_autocmds { group = w.augroup, event = 'BufWinEnter' }
          return ret
        end
      end,
    },
    {
      "ibhagwan/fzf-lua",
      keys = {
        { '<space>f', function() require('fzf-lua').files() end },
      },
      dependencies = { "nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons" },
      opts = {}
    }
  },
})

[dpetka2001]

@IceSentry You can paste it directly in the main init.lua just after require("config.lazy"). Probably... I haven't tested it.