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Heh I actually messed around with some test code to do this a while ago but it broke some big things

So yes this is something I would like to improve, either directly or a PR on NERDTree (but that would be difficult to get one in I think)

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You can always fork nerd tree and have people point Vundle to your fork if people want to avoid the extra [] characters.

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That is true but my test code was essentially a fork of a specific part of code that displays the brackets. I think this is the one I was messing with:

let g:NERDTreeFlagSet.renderToString = substitute(g:NERDTreeFlagSet.renderToString(), "[", "x", "")

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I just realized something - wouldn't there be a way to use the vim conceal capabilities? You could add a concealment for each GLYPH such as: [GLYPH] => GLYPH.
You would probably need to have concealcursor=nvc for it to look good, and that's okay except it would conflict with the very small set of people that wish to use concealcursor for other purposes with a setting different than nvc. If they use nvc, it should be fine.

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That is an interesting idea! Thanks I'll have to try it!

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Here's what will work best:
(You have to make sure it only ever runs in the nerd tree syntax highlighting - not other panes).

" Replace any `[` or `]` with underscore.
" We'll hide the underscores anyways.
syntax match hideBracketsInNerdTree "[\]|\[]*" conceal cchar=_


" Must be completely hidden otherwise cursorline doesn't highlight the concealed bg color correctly.
set conceallevel=3
set concealcursor=nvic

This seems to work great - I just don't know where in the plugin is best to place this.

Also, when concealed, you'll probably want to add one extra space after the icon (can't be done with conceal and has to be done in the plugin) just so it doesn't look as cramped.

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Looks like just placing all that above code in the NERDTreeWebDevIconsRefreshListener method works. It also doesn't seem to interfere with other buffers that have conceal since conceal settings seem to be per buffer.
(Requires adding one extra character of padding).

(edit: nevermind, it isn't initialized properly and refreshing messes up other highlighting).

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😄 Great sounds like you have probably the best solution. Do you want to submit a PR ? If not I will eventually get to making your changes myself (just might take a little longer that way)

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See my note, it didn't work and I don't understand Vim plugin architecture well enough.

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Ah okay no problem. What you have given me is good info to make an attempt, so stay tuned 👍

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fixed with v0.4.0 release

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