@pablore, that's why I don't use neotree or treemacs. I use direx. It lets me have a tree in a buffer of my choosing. I also wrote a function to open file from the tree in any surrounding buffer. e.g. o h - opens the file placing it on the left side, o j - in the bottom, and so on. Here's spacemacs layer for that:

https://github.com/agzam/dot-spacemacs/tree/master/layers/ag-dired

@pablore Does this help: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacemacs/comments/7phdqy/is_it_possible_to_open_a_file_on_a_specific/ ?

Using „2 l“ as told in the comments?

Yes, it works. It is “<window number> l“.

this turned out to be is especially handy when used with Chrome dev tools

That's cool. Is that the Emacs plugin for Chrome? Or is there a specific thing for the Slack app?

nope...

this is of my own baking. basically I'm calling emacsclient with custom frame and invoking a function, but before that I'm emulating "Select All" + "Copy" and then when frame opens, I yank what's in clipboard, then there's a minor mode that when pressed C-c C-c puts the buffer content back into clipboard, and kills the frame, then the script pastes it (into previous app), essentially overwriting what was previously selected by "Select All"

this doesn't work in Linux though.. I have to figure out yet how to make that work in Linux

this is for OSX

Nice work.

thanks,... it's a bit "dirty" right now, it works as part of my Hammerspoon config, and not documented at all

I guess one can use applescript to get the same thing to work without Hammerspoon