# Kaktree - interactive file tree in your Kakoune **URL:** \ **Category:** Plugins\ **Tags:** buffer\ **Created:** [June 17, 2019, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kaktree-interactive-file-tree-in-your-kakoune/627 "2019-06-17T09:05:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/andreyorst/32/29_2.png) [@andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/andreyorst)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kaktree-interactive-file-tree-in-your-kakoune/627/1 "2019-06-17T09:05:29Z")
> [@I have been using Emacs at work for whole week](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/i-have-been-using-emacs-at-work-for-whole-week/614/1): > > Well, that’s not really a side panel file explorer, but I mean that nothing prevent us from implementing one. I just want to present my new plugin: [Kaktree](https://github.com/andreyorst/kaktree) ![image](https://discuss.kakoune.com/uploads/default/original/1X/83af2b7242a507f7edd594dbc9d70917d175f4ee.png) It’s simple filetree that supports folding directories, and can open files, change working root, etc. This isn’t full featured file manager, just a simple tree viewer with some interactive capabilities. ---
**Author:** ![andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/andreyorst/32/29_2.png) [@andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/andreyorst)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kaktree-interactive-file-tree-in-your-kakoune/627/2 "2019-06-17T18:19:28Z")
🤙 calling @robertmeta ---
**Author:** ![robertmeta](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/robertmeta/32/833_2.png) [@robertmeta](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/robertmeta)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kaktree-interactive-file-tree-in-your-kakoune/627/3 "2019-06-17T19:06:20Z")
Misclick from mobile, meant to be 🤘 hand. ---
**Author:** ![TeddyDD](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/teddydd/32/21_2.png) [@TeddyDD](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/TeddyDD)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2019, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kaktree-interactive-file-tree-in-your-kakoune/627/4 "2019-06-18T08:10:59Z")
Well done! Could you mention in readme it requires master branch build of Kakoune? Some of us are stuck with six moths old stable version ☹ ---
**Author:** ![andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/andreyorst/32/29_2.png) [@andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/andreyorst)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2019, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kaktree-interactive-file-tree-in-your-kakoune/627/5 "2019-06-18T08:14:00Z")
oh, totally forgot about it! Sure I’ll add this info. > [@TeddyDD](#): > > Some of us are stuck with six moths old stable version ☹ \*hugs\* I know that feel, I’m using stable Kakoune on mobile, because it can’t build master ☹ ---
**Author:** ![andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/andreyorst/32/29_2.png) [@andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/andreyorst)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2019, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kaktree-interactive-file-tree-in-your-kakoune/627/6 "2019-12-19T09:08:13Z")
Important update. Now **kaktree** remembers directory states, so refreshing the tree or folding directories now doesn’t loose tree state! More features to come soon. Huge thanks to @topisani for contributing the solution for a problem I could not solve myself for a long time! ---
**Author:** ![duncan](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/duncan/32/95_2.png) [@duncan](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/duncan)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 11:24pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kaktree-interactive-file-tree-in-your-kakoune/627/7 "2019-12-23T23:24:12Z")
Thanks Andrey, another great plugin. A `readlink` work around for those not using the [linux readlink](https://linux.die.net/man/1/readlink) is: my $real\_path = `realpath -m – $path`; > Cheers guys. ---
**Author:** ![1g0rb0hm](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/1g0rb0hm/32/407_2.png) [@1g0rb0hm](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/1g0rb0hm)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kaktree-interactive-file-tree-in-your-kakoune/627/8 "2020-01-10T22:53:13Z")
Thanks for this @andreyorst! This is the best interactive file exporer plugin I have found for **Kakoune**. For anyone coming from **vim** / **neovim** this is a true alternative to **[NERDtree](https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree)**. Some very minor modifications were necessary to get it to work on **Darwin** in combination with **[kitty](https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/)** terminal. Folder icons are from [NerdFont - FiraCode](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/FiraCode) (see fork at [https://github.com/1g0rb0hm/kaktree](https://github.com/1g0rb0hm/kaktree)): ![Kaktree](https://discuss.kakoune.com/uploads/default/original/1X/9ea7c2cbed70927e657328b49367634bb29ca906.gif) ---
**Author:** ![andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/andreyorst/32/29_2.png) [@andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/andreyorst)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kaktree-interactive-file-tree-in-your-kakoune/627/9 "2020-02-13T06:03:48Z")
Kaktree now supports both readling -m and realpath -m based on OS type ---
**Author:** ![andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/andreyorst/32/29_2.png) [@andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/andreyorst)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kaktree-interactive-file-tree-in-your-kakoune/627/10 "2020-05-06T10:45:49Z")
It is now possible to select client in which file should be visited: ![image](https://discuss.kakoune.com/uploads/default/original/1X/6e5d0e9a679d598bc5affc483c7b6d27384bbd8f.png) New shortcut was added for this feature: Alt+Ret