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Vim Plugins You Should Know About: Nerd Tree

40 points by pkrumins 17y ago

brianto2010 17y ago
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.
- hyyypr 17y ago
  Nice I didn't know you could also show hierarchical tree view in Netrw :) Thanks.
- pkrumins 17y ago
  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.)
  - pkrumins 17y ago
    I didn't get any answer from him at this time.
hyyypr 17y ago
I personnaly use :Explore when I just want to browse, and FuzzyFinder (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1984 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.
- pkrumins 17y ago
  Thanks. I have yet to explore FuzzyFinder!
- latortuga 17y ago
  I use http://github.com/jamis/fuzzyfinder_textmate 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 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1984) you have to use is 2.16.
  - hyyypr 17y ago
    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 ?
  - hyyypr 17y ago
    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 :/
siddhant 17y ago
I wonder why was I using MiniBufExplorer until now, instead of this.
hyyypr 17y ago
I must add that the related blog posts are quite interessting.

40 points by pkrumins 17y ago

brianto2010 17y ago

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.

hyyypr 17y ago
Nice I didn't know you could also show hierarchical tree view in Netrw :) Thanks.
pkrumins 17y ago
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.)
- pkrumins 17y ago
  I didn't get any answer from him at this time.

hyyypr 17y ago

I personnaly use :Explore when I just want to browse, and FuzzyFinder (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1984 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.

pkrumins 17y ago
Thanks. I have yet to explore FuzzyFinder!
latortuga 17y ago
I use http://github.com/jamis/fuzzyfinder_textmate 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 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1984) you have to use is 2.16.
- hyyypr 17y ago
  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 ?
- hyyypr 17y ago
  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 :/

siddhant 17y ago

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

hyyypr 17y ago

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