Multiple possible keybindings for mini.files

[Dronakurl]

In mini.files, I had the 'problem', that I wanted to exit with <ESC> and q. I managed to have this behaviour with the following configuration. It would be a nice feature to have this as an option inside mini.files. When I am not alone, I could try to implement it.

      require("mini.files").setup({
        mappings = { close = "<ESC>" },
      })
      vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ "BufEnter" }, {
        callback = function(ev)
          if vim.bo[ev.buf].filetype == "minifiles" then
            vim.api.nvim_buf_set_keymap(ev.buf, "n", "q", ":lua require('mini.files').close()<CR>", {})
          end
        end,
      })

[echasnovski]

Thanks for the suggestion.

This won't be a part of 'mini.files' because buffers there are also meant to be edited inside Insert or Visual mode. Hence <Esc> original meaning is valuable.

Creating own buffer-local mapping is a suggested approach here. The recommended approach is to follow an example from help and use dedicated 'mini.files' events. With something like this:

vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('User', {
  pattern = 'MiniFilesBufferCreate',
  callback = function(args)
    vim.keymap.set('n', '<Esc>', function() MiniFiles.close() end, { buffer = args.data.buf_id, desc = 'Close' })
  end,
})