Add option to open in float by default
set to true, Oil will open in float mode when :Oil command is used
Solves #298
Making this work on :e . does seem hard.
Would you be able to give some thoughts on where to start?
Also what about adding a :Oil --normal flag that opens oil in normal window mode.
Well this is where we switch the buffer from path/to/file to oil://path/to/file
https://github.com/stevearc/oil.nvim/blob/29a06fcc906f57894c1bc768219ba590e03d1121/lua/oil/init.lua#L687-L690
You would have to somehow instead restore whatever the previous buffer was in this window (might be difficult or impossible if the buffer had bufhidden=wipe), then open the floating oil win.
Instead of --normal I think --no-float would be better.