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Here’s some useful keys when you are using nerdtree: And you can use enter to open the enter a folder or to open the file.
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With it you can navigate between files in your vim terminal like a file explorer, you can use the arrow key like up and down yo navigate each file you want to operate. NERDTree is a vim plugin to add file explorer interface to our vim. We only need to test if our nerdtree plugin is being installed or not, simply by opening your vim, type: vim
Visual studio vim pluging install#
Those are downloading nerdtree source code, without commit history, so it’s smaller in size.Īctually that’s the only required process of how you install a vim plugin on Windows, there's no extra things, except if you want to do configuration, but we're not going to do that right now. Now clone the source code of the vim plugin that we want to install, in this example, i am going to install nerdtree: cd vimfiles/pack/vendor/start Note that the HOME is your home directory, on windows, Home directory usually something like C:/Users/your_username. If the path doesn’t exist, you can manually create it. Move to HOME/vimfiles/pack/vendor/start directory using cd command. Now to install a plugin, let’s start by opening our windows command prompt or there is a new cool windows terminal (if you don’t know about windows terminal, this is a really cool terminal, you can read in my previous article here). Actually it’s very simple, but because vim users mostly are linux users, it kind of difficult to find a reference of Vim for Windows. So if you are someone like me, struggling to install vim plugin, you can follow this step by step guide. As a beginner vim user, even just installing a plugin is already something that confusing, i don’t know why the first time i try to install vim plugin just doesn’t work, even though i believe i have followed the instruction correctly.