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Vim - The file explorer

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Post by simonreed » Sat, Jul 28, 2012, 8:23 PM UTC

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Post by adriand » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 12:43 AM UTC

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!

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Post by RegEx » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 1:11 AM UTC

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

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#4

Post by lichengcai » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 3:47 AM UTC

awesome. This is exactly what I am looking for.

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Post by eliasmacpherson » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 7:05 AM UTC

RegEx wrote: post #3

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

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

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Post by eliasmacpherson » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 9:24 AM UTC

RegEx wrote: post #3

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

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

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Post by randomdrake » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 12:17 PM UTC

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.

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Post by RegEx » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 6:56 PM UTC

eliasmacpherson wrote: post #6

RegEx wrote: post #3

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

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

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.

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Post by simonreed » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 9:08 PM UTC

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

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Post by slurgfest » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 9:35 PM UTC

adriand wrote: post #2

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!

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.