Sort directories first

[kputnam]

In addition to the sort_by configuration, I'd like to be able to show directories before other types of files. So if sort_by is name, then I would see directories sorted by name, followed by other files sorted by name. This is currently possible with NerdTree, but I could not find a way to do this in NvimTree.

This type of feature will probably eventually face some scope creep, eg I want to sort certain things first or last. I think NERD Tree addresses it with its NERDTreeSortOrder configuration variable. There may be other ways to go about it though.

[alex-courtis]

I don't quite understand: directories are already (always) shown before files. See (old) screenshot:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyazdani42/nvim-tree.lua/master/.github/screenshot2.png

autocommands.vim is shown after plugins.

[Shougo]

I think it is after the sort is customed.

[kputnam]

My mistake, you're correct @alex-courtis that directories are sorted first. I was simply disoriented -- opening a file caused nvim-tree to automatically expand some directories, which made it look at first glance that things were mixed up.