Alternative NERDTree in Vim

Question

I used NERDTree quite happily, but found that this was causing problems when using the YouCompleteMe plugin (which is much more useful). In the meantime, I used Ctrl-P, which is a useful plugin in itself, but I miss the overview of my projects that NERFTree gave me.

Could someone suggest an alternative that does roughly the same thing and hopefully without the problems associated with NERDTree?

Answer 1

If you use the plugin to open buffers most of the time and use NERDTree only to search for larger directory hierarchies, you may need to learn about the built-in interface of netrw Vim :help netrw .

The options that I found particularly useful were:

 let g:netrw_banner = 0 let g:netrw_keepdir = 0 let g:netrw_liststyle = 1 " or 3 let g:netrw_sort_options = 'i' 

And maybe a way to start it when starting Vim:

1) Open it at startup if no argument is given ( $ vim ):

 autocmd VimEnter * if !argc() | Explore | endif 

2) Open it only if the specified argument is a directory ( $ vim /tmp ):

 autocmd VimEnter * if isdirectory(expand('<afile>')) | Explore | endif 

NTN