[QUESTION]: cd into root when creating notes

[idr4n]

Description

Hi there,

When I find a note with tdo f the function find_note cd into root. I was wondering if there is a particular reason why this behavior is not added when creating notes, e.g. with tdo e or tdo t.

Particularly, I would like to automatically cd into root whenever creating notes from any other path or directory outside of root. That is, to add cd "$root" || return to functions such as new_todo and new_entry.

Let me know if you would like to consider a PR for this.

Thanks in advance!

Additional Information

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[2KAbhishek]

Thanks for opening up the issue.

I wanted to understand what problem are you facing for this feature not being present.

Can you share some more details on that please.

[idr4n]

It is not a problem as such, but if I crate a note, at which point neovim is opened (as it is my editor), then neo-tree or nvimtree for example, will not show the right directory and therefore it is difficult to locate the newly created note. Also, if I want to fuzzy find something (e.g., with Telescope) then it would not be possible or difficult. This is because, most of the time after creating a note, I want to interact with the rest of my notes dir or vault (also, I am using obsidian.nvim which will not detect the right notes directory, therefore).

[2KAbhishek]

Ahh right, I am aware of this and it was intentional since neovim uses the tdo script in non interactive mode.

I personally use a keybinding that let's me quickly change the root to the parent of the current file: https://github.com/2KAbhishek/nvim2k/blob/13cb15d51e9ccc5ffa02e08b925d4642a3221722/lua/plugins/tools/which-key.lua#L126

You can also write a lua function that can do the same but change to git root instead of file root.

[2KAbhishek]

Just pushed out a neovim command to handle git root / parent dir

You can check it out here: 2KAbhishek/nvim2k@a96091e

If this addresses your concern, feel free to close the issue as well

[idr4n]

Thanks for elaborating on that. Not sure what you mean by "neovim uses the tdo script in non interactive mode" though.

I do have a similar command for changing the current directory in neovim (which I never use actually), but in my case, since whenever I interact with a note I want the notes directory to be set as the cwd, changing the cwd manually would add another step in my workflow.

At the moment I am happy by adding cd "$current_dir" || return to the functions that create notes, as it is working as expected so far for me. So I'm going to close this issue given that you preference is to not cd into the notes directory overall when creating notes.

Thanks again!

[2KAbhishek]

I was referring to the https://github.com/2kabhishek/tdo.nvim plugin.

This executes the script non interactively.

[2KAbhishek]

Hey @idr4n I was going through the code and found a way to handle the case you mentioned without breaking compatibility with the neovim extension, I have pushed out a fix :)

[idr4n]

Thank @2KAbhishek. However I was referring to the functions that create notes, such as new_note, new_todo and new_entry.

[2KAbhishek]

yes, they have been updated to cd into the root dir beofre opening neovim. check the write_file code

[idr4n]

Oh yes, I missed that. Thanks a lot @2KAbhishek, it is working as desired!