MSmstudio·Dec 1, 2022
You might find the ":NERDTree" plugin useful for project/directory navigation:
https://catonmat.net/vim-plugins-nerdtree-vim
and
https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree
In A Vim Guide for Advanced Userspreservim
nerdtree
Vim Script2010–2025
preservim / nerdtree
nerdtree
A tree explorer plugin for vim.
14Distinct people
14Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
20.1KGitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
A tree explorer plugin for vim.
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Where it is used
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- junegunn/vim-plug · linked in 2 of the same discussions
- tpope/vim-fugitive · linked in 2 of the same discussions
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HN mentions by year14 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2010-08-10 15:21:29 UTC to 2025-07-27 20:56:17 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2010 | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI use a lot of them, many specific to my work, but here are some of the ones that I think will most improve the quality of life for most developers.
- For a plug-in manager I user packer
- For file/text search I recommend telescope (https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim)
- Copilot (https://github.com/github/copilot.vim)
- Nerd tree for file browsing (https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree)
- commentary for commenting (https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary)
- ALE for linting (https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale)
- Mason for installing LSP servers (https://github.com/williamboman/mason.nvim)
Once you have the proper tooling in place you can do pretty much everything in vim that you are doing in vs code or intelliJ. I've just started using it for most of my dev work recently and I have found ThePrimeagen's youtube videos on vim
Read the rest
to be a great resource.
Series on using vim as you editor (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm323Lc7iSW_wuxqmKx_x...)
Introduction to setting up your vim configuration (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2QJYq4IX6M&t=512s)
I recommend giving it a try. The process of learning it all was fun, and as you may have heard you can eventually get pretty quick using Vim.