[cal2]

I'm not sure if this is what you want, but NERD Tree[1] works for a lot of people.

Here's a tutorial[2] for NERD Tree that I quickly found.

[1]: https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree

[2]: http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/vim-essential-plugin-nerd...

[janus]

thanks, I'll give it a try. When I briefly tried NERDtree, my issue was how to switch back and forth between the tree and the opened files list

[bitcrusher]

hold down control and hit w, twice, when in visual mode. That will move the cursor from frame to frame.

If you want to see a 'file browser', open VIM and type ":sp ."

Strictly speaking you don't need nerdTree (though I love it ).