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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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