Fix: alpha window closing. Patches to open files with telescope and neotree on the same window as alpha. Autocmds to load global and local settigs to every window after opening from telescope/neovim from alpha window.

lua/settings_autoload_after_alpha.lua

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+-- Auto-apply all preferred settings to every normal buffer
+local M = {}
+
+function M.setup()
+	vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ 'BufWinEnter', 'WinEnter', 'BufEnter' }, {
+		callback = function()
+			local ft = vim.bo.filetype
+			local bt = vim.bo.buftype
+
+			-- Skip floating or special buffers
+			if ft == 'neo-tree' or ft == 'TelescopePrompt' or bt == 'terminal' or bt == 'nofile' then
+				return
+			end
+
+			-- Window-local options
+			vim.wo.number = true
+			vim.wo.relativenumber = true
+			vim.wo.signcolumn = 'yes'
+			vim.wo.scrolloff = 8
+
+			-- Global options
+			vim.o.hlsearch = false
+			vim.o.mouse = '' -- disable mouse
+			vim.o.breakindent = true
+			vim.o.undofile = true
+			vim.o.ignorecase = true
+			vim.o.smartcase = true
+			vim.o.updatetime = 250
+			vim.o.timeoutlen = 300
+			vim.o.completeopt = 'menuone,noselect'
+			vim.o.termguicolors = true
+			vim.o.showtabline = 1
+
+			-- Tabs and indentation
+			vim.o.expandtab = false
+			vim.o.shiftwidth = 4
+			vim.o.softtabstop = 0
+			vim.o.tabstop = 4
+			vim.o.smartindent = true
+		end,
+	})
+end
+
+return M