People who swear by Oil.nvim , why?

1. oil.nvim

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   Neovim file explorer: edit your filesystem like a buffer

   

   Hello, i've tried Oil.nvim and liked it , but when people talk about it , in general questions about FileTrees and File Browsers people really swear by Oil.nvim and got me wondering,what am i missing?

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

3. mini.files

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   Navigate and manipulate file system. Part of 'mini.nvim' library.

   

   For me I think it’s the best at what it does (with mini.files coming in a close second. It would probably be my first, but I prefer the whole buffer approach over the floating popups.) I’ve tried dirbuf.nvim as well, but I didn’t like that I couldn’t copy/move files.

4. dirbuf.nvim

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   A file manager for Neovim which lets you edit your filesystem like you edit text

   

   For me I think it’s the best at what it does (with mini.files coming in a close second. It would probably be my first, but I prefer the whole buffer approach over the floating popups.) I’ve tried dirbuf.nvim as well, but I didn’t like that I couldn’t copy/move files.

5. mini.pick

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   Pick anything. Part of 'mini.nvim' library.

   

   As for file trees I find that having one promotes the use of it and I think thats an anti-pattern when working with vim/neovim. Tools like telescope, fzf and mini.pick are much better suited for quickly finding what you need and then getting out of your way.

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