Netrw tree listing style opening files in other directories creates new empty files in current directory

Question

When using netrw with the tree style listing (netrw_liststyle = 3), if I expand a directory, open a file in that directory, then try to open a file above that directory, it creates a new empty file in the lower directory with the same name.

For example, I have the following directory structure:

.
├── baz.txt
└── foo
    ├── bar
    │   └── bar.txt
    └── foo.txt

I open the bar directory, then bar.txt. Then I attempt to open baz.txt and instead of opening the file, vim creates an empty file /foo/bar/baz.txt.

Is there any way for netrw to know the full paths of the files listed, or does it simply run :edit on the file name without the full path?

Edit: I'm using vim 8.0.427 and netrw v156.

Answer 1

I was able to fix this issue by using :Lexplore to open the netrw listing and removing the setting netrw_browse_split = 4 from my .vimrc.