Configure Filesystem Browser to show current project folder (analogous to behaviour of git window)

[Waqar Ahmed]

sounds reasonable to me.

Best open an issue at https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate so that
more people can respond.

On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 9:43 PM Stefan Riha <stefan at sriha.net> wrote:
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> I just saw that the "options" action of the filesystem browser contains an entry
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> "automatically synchronize with current document"
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> Would it be possible to make an entry:
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> "automatically synchronize with the top-level project directory of the current file"
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> -----Original message-----
> From: Stefan Riha
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17 2022, 6:24 pm
> To: kwrite-devel at kde.org
> Subject: Configure Filesystem Browser to show current project folder (analogous to behaviour of git window)
>
> The behaviour of the git window is to "follow" the currently edited file, i.e. if the file belongs to a project, then open the project automatically. This is great.
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> I would like to configure the Filesystem Browser analogously, that is: open the project folder in the Filesystem Browser window automatically (if the file belongs to a project).
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> Is this currently possible? I did not see anything related in the browser's "configure" context menu. There is a "current document folder" entry, but this is cumbersome. First, I have to actively press the button (not automatic), and second, the files are often in a subfolder, and I almost never want to switch to the subfolder of a project, but instead to the project's parent folder.
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> I am used to this behaviour from VScode.
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> What would I have to do to implement this? Would this be best done with a plugin?
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> Thanks a lot for your help!
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