Keep open folders state after tabnew

[BitInByte]

Hello everyone, first I want to start with a thank you with the amazing job with the Neo-tree.

I just have a question. I found out, that every time that I issue the :tabnew command, and then I open the neo-tree float, it always shows the directories close, even if I have had some directories open on some other tabs. Is there a way to keep this state from tab to tab so that it always keep the directories open from the last tab?

Thanks in advance for the help

[cseickel]

Unfortunately, keeping the state isolated between tabs was a core, very intentional design decision. There's no simple way to change that.

If you want to try to hack something together, you could try to copy the state.explicitly_opened_directories table from the state of the prior tab and set it on the state of the new tab before it renders. You can get the state objects with this method:

local manager = require("neo-tree.sources.manager")
local prev_state = manager.get_state("filesystem", <prev_tabid>)
local next_state = manager.get_state("filesystem", <next_tabid>)
new_state.explicitly_opened_directories = prev_state.explicitly_opened_directories