Friendship ended with NERDTree

Now Netrw is my bestfriend.

Hindsight is 20/20

You know it’s weird sometimes, I’ve spent a decent amount of time using NERDTree, even if i heard of and knew the existence of Netrw, I thought to myself that it’s probably complicated and requires more setup or some such configuration.

I was wrong

Nope, Built-in, Out of the box, Netrw just, exists and werks.

Now instead of :NerdTreeToggle, you type in :Netrw and you get yourself a listing.

There are various Exploring commands:

• Explore
• Hexplore
• Lexplore
• Nexplore
• Pexplore
• Rexplore
• Sexplore
• Texplore
• Vexplore

And they are all detailed in the vim help files …

I’d like to take a moment

And just appreciate the absolute beauty that is the vim :help command, and the vim help system.

I mean, it’s just beautiful and amazing that you can have each and every possible vim command explained to you in depth.

And sometimes I take a glance at it, just to remind myself of some parts/possibilities …

Enough fanboying

I have begun reading the docs today, expecting the entire process of learning the basics would take me a bit long, …

Only to find that really If i want to get going, it’s really quite simple;
The most important things to know to make an incredily long story short is :

• Enter to edit a file/explore a directory
• o, unlike NERDTree, explores the directory in a new horizonal netrw window.
• - Makes Netrw go up one directory
• c, Make browsing directory the current directory
• p, Preview the file
• t, Enter the file/directory under the cursor in a new tab
• v, Enter the file/directory under the cursor in a new window
• %, Open a new file in netrw’s current directory

And there are SO many other things to read, but i just listed the ones that i used often in NERDTree (well, some are new to me, like %)

Anyways, I shall be seeing if this is sufficient, but i will read the doc regarding browsing for sure.

Kinda shook at how there was this golden trove and i didn’t see it

Makes you think … what else is there ?