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Vim Plugins You Should Know About: Nerd Tree

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I personnaly use :Explore when I just want to browse, and FuzzyFinder (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1984) when I know what I want to open; it allow fuzzy (or not) completion on filenames, buffers, tags, and a whole lot of other things.

Thanks. I have yet to explore FuzzyFinder!

I use http://github.com/jamis/fuzzyfinder_textmate which is an extension to the existing fuzzy finder vim plugin which tries to simulate textmate's fuzzy finder file opener (cmd T if you're on a mac). It's really quite awesome and I use it every single day, all the time, to open every file I work with. The downside is that you have to use an old version of the regular fuzzy finder gem because the guy who maintains that gem changed the api a bunch of times - to save you some trouble I believe the correct version of normal fuzzy finder (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1984) you have to use is 2.16.

Sounds good I'll give it a shot. But I never used textmate (mac hardware user, linux lover :), how is it that popular ? And how is it different from the regular fuzzy finder ?

From the github page: "Once in TextMate mode, completion is done against the entire directory tree at once, using partial matches."

Can't you do the same thing with fuzzy finder using /filenamepart ? And doing this in the regular fuzzy finder in a relatively big directory tree, does take some time unfortunately :/

What, exactly, are the differences between this and the Netrw explorer that came with Vim? If you run

  :Explore <dir>

and press 'i' three times, you'll get a hierarchical explorer similar to this.

Nice I didn't know you could also show hierarchical tree view in Netrw :) Thanks.

I have been using Nerd Tree since the beginning and had forgotten about Netrw.

I just asked Nerd Tree's author if there are any differences. Let's see what he says.

Probably Netrw is more powerful (supports ftp, etc.)

I didn't get any answer from him at this time.

I must add that the related blog posts are quite interessting.

I wonder why was I using MiniBufExplorer until now, instead of this.

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