Experimental Features: `session_restore_nvim`

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Experimental Features

nvim-tree has experimental features, previews of new functionality that will become default or optional functionality.

Please try these out and reply with your experiences. If you encounter a problem, please raise a bug report and indicate the experimental feature you are using. Please mention @igorlfs in the issue.

Restore Buffers When Restoring Vim Sessions (#3335)

When restoring a vim session, nvim-tree buffers are also restored.

Enable

      experimental = {
        session_restore_nvim = true,
      },

On !mksession the state will be persisted in stdpath("data"), usually ~/.local/share/nvim/nvim-tree-session.json

Timeline

2026-07-10 : experimental feature released, default off