I'm afraid I don't understand.
[deleted some rambling I babbled on with before I figured out the root cause]
What are you trying to accomplish? Your noremap list there doesn't make sense to me anyways.
Aha! Got it!
You're using a DVORAK keyboard layout, aren't you? NOW the mappings begin to make sense. (Forgot to mention that.. didn't we!)
Looking at the source of the NETRW plugin, it looks like the netrw buffer is setting up BUFFER ONLY nnoremaps... which, of course, override yours. I'm looking for a solution.
From what I can tell, you'd have to do some major surgery to the $VIMRUNTIME/autoload/netrw.vim file, which would make upgrading a pain, and would spew netrw mappings all over your nice clean floor. But another idea struck me:
The netrw plugin sets the filetype to 'netrw' when it opens the buffer, so you could set up an autocommand in your .vimrc to set your needed key conversions as needed in the netrw window.
augroup netrw_dvorak_fix
autocmd!
autocmd filetype netrw call Fix_netrw_maps_for_dvorak()
augroup END
function! Fix_netrw_maps_for_dvorak()
noremap <buffer> d h
noremap <buffer> h gj
noremap <buffer> t gk
noremap <buffer> n l
noremap <buffer> e d
noremap <buffer> l n
" and any others...
endfunction
Sort of has to be done like that since you can't concatenate map commands. Should work for you.
I suppose if you're using the dvorak noremap's throughout, then you could remove the <buffer> modifier.
Best Answer
Reading all subdirectories would be a costly operation, and slow down the opening of netrw considerably. As the tree display is just one (non-default) mode of several display modes, that's probably the reason why there's no such command. I tried something like this (triggering the
<Enter>mapping on each directory line to open it):But it unfortunately didn't work.
Plugin alternative
The NERDTree plugin is similar to netrw, but it is built around a tree-style display (in a sidebar). As such, it also has commands to open subtrees (but those are just as slow as with netrw).