Keep Focus On Tree After Opening File

[austinliuigi]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I personally find it unintuitive for the cursor to jump to a file after opening it in the tree.

Describe the solution you'd like

A setting to keep the focus on the tree after opening a file via actions such as edit, vsplit, split, etc.

or

Separate actions similar to preview, but for vsplit, split, etc.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I have implemented a simple action_cb to focus on NvimTree after opening a file, but I'm not sure how to implement the window picker that the default actions have.

For example:

function(node)
  vim.cmd("vsplit" .. node.absolute_path .. " | wincmd L | NvimTreeFocus")
end

[alex-courtis]

You can use the API to edit the file and then focus the tree. See :help nvim-tree-api

function(node) 
	local nt_api = require("nvim-tree.api")
	nt_api.node.open.edit(node)
	nt_api.tree.focus()
end

This isn't necessary as a feature as everything is present in the API. Moving to Q/A discussion for future reference.