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adriand
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
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.
adriand
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.
RegEx
The "manipulating the filesystem" section was very helpful. Also, huge props for making a text version of the screencast.
eliasmacpherson
Agreed, it saved me watching the video. Another few easy to remember tips, always good.
eliasmacpherson
The more of these vim related articles I find the less I feel the need for plugins.
RegEx
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.
[dead] lichengcai
awesome. This is exactly what I am looking for.
randomdrake
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
you can use i to cycle through different layouts, one of which is a multi-column layout.
simonreed
To open a file in new tab just use 't' instead of Enter.
gcr
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.