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Re:Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free... by mikegirouard on Friday August 17, 2012 @10:02AM (#4396364)
I wound up doing the same thing (not with Janus, but with a massive forked .vimrc).

One day I was SSH'd into a remote server and vim'd a directory by accident and I discovered Netrw. It wasn't the same as NERDTree, but it was good enough for me to get rid of that plugin. Eventually I just learned to enjoy the defaults with minor tweaks. Today my vimrc[1] is < 200 lines, mostly comments and navigation shortcuts.

[1]: https://github.com/mgirouard/Dots/blob/master/.vimrc

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Re:Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free... by gbog on Friday August 17, 2012 @12:11PM (#4397158)
Nice, I have a bit more (eg Pyflakes highlighting, Pysmell completion) but I share the same trend: barebone vim (no gui, no mouse, no pathogen infection).

I was looking for the rightbelow this, found it in your vimrc. Found it weird you don't have wildmenu...

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Re:Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free... by tolos on Friday August 17, 2012 @02:09PM (#4397829)
What is this netrw? http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1075 seems to imply it's just for vim'ing remote files. Does it do more?
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Re:Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free... by jh3 on Friday August 17, 2012 @02:12PM (#4397849)
Check out http://vimcasts.org/episodes/the-file-explorer/

Also...

:help netrw

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Re:Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free... by dkersten on Friday August 17, 2012 @10:17AM (#4396438)
I used NERDTree for a long time until I saw a simple tutorial to netrw - now I love netrw and don't want to ever go back to NERDTree. It's simple and to the point and just works really well for me.
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Re:Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free... by DEinspanjer on Friday August 17, 2012 @11:01AM (#4396669)
Hm.. maybe I need to take another look at netrw. Last time I played with it, the big thing that led me to prefer NERDTree was the difficulty in opening a file you navigated to in the pane to the right. It kept replacing the netrw pane.
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Re:Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free... by msmithstubbs on Friday August 17, 2012 @11:16AM (#4396764)
You can configure this with g:netrw_browse_split. Setting it to 4 will open the file in the previous window.

See :help netrw_browse_split for other options.

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Re:Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free... by johncoltrane on Friday August 17, 2012 @02:07PM (#4397821)
As always, the answer is in the documentation (:help netrw):

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