Vim - The file explorer

http://vimcasts.org/episodes/the-file-explorer/

by simonreed • 14 years ago

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adriand2• 14 years ago

That was excellent. I despise NERD tree but I also had no clue how to use netrw. Instead, my habit is to use the console to touch files I want created, or to create or remove directories, etc. This little screencast was quite enlightening and I'll be dropping that habit!

slurgfest• 14 years ago

I am curious, what is wrong with NERD tree? I had some frustrations with netrw a while ago which caused me to drop it. I don't really use NERD tree that heavily, though.

adriand2• 14 years ago

I just found that it was an unnecessary, hard to navigate tool. I was much quicker at finding files using Command-T, or, if I didn't know where something was, just browsing the folder structure from the command line.

RegEx2• 14 years ago

The "manipulating the filesystem" section was very helpful. Also, huge props for making a text version of the screencast.

eliasmacpherson2• 14 years ago

Agreed, it saved me watching the video. Another few easy to remember tips, always good.

eliasmacpherson2• 14 years ago

The more of these vim related articles I find the less I feel the need for plugins.

RegEx2• 14 years ago

The only plugins I use are ctrlp and repmo.vim (lets you repeat j and k movements with ;). Unfortunately, repmo.vim breaks on vim 7.3, and I don't know vimscript.

randomdrake• 14 years ago

I use the Vim file explorer all the time. The only thing I miss is having a multi-column layout when I've got a directory with a lot of files.

A couple additional tips:

1) You can quickly and easily search through the files the same way you would search through code (regex included) with something like:

  /filename

2) You can easily jump into the Vim file explorer without the steps of opening Vim and executing a command:

  ~/vim .

This will simply open vim with the file explorer in the current directory.

pythonandchips• 14 years ago

you can use i to cycle through different layouts, one of which is a multi-column layout.

simonreed• 14 years ago

To open a file in new tab just use 't' instead of Enter.

gcr• 14 years ago

As someone with vision impairment, this is what your site looks like to me: (level of detail is approximate)

http://i.imgur.com/w2iNd.png

But when I try to enlarge the fonts, it doesn't look any better.

http://i.imgur.com/WQYPB.png

Can we, as a community, please stop using px units in our CSS? I can't help but chuckle when opening a site in elinks in a terminal makes it look far better than it does in my browser.

Vim - The file explorer

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