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I'm not sure if this is what you want, but NERD Tree[1] works for a lot of people.

Here's a tutorial[2] for NERD Tree that I quickly found.

thanks, I'll give it a try. When I briefly tried NERDtree, my issue was how to switch back and forth between the tree and the opened files list

hold down control and hit w, twice, when in visual mode. That will move the cursor from frame to frame.

If you want to see a 'file browser', open VIM and type ":sp ."

Strictly speaking you don't need nerdTree (though I love it ).