Two basic questions with NERDTree — switching windows and finding files

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why picture why · Dec 15, 2010 · Viewed 29.8k times · Source

I am using vim with NERDTree to develop, but not good at it. I have two questions with NERDTree:

  1. How to move cursor between nav window and edit window without mouse?
  2. How to go to one special file node (named xxx) in nav window directly by keyboard?

Answer

Jeet picture Jeet · Dec 15, 2010

The NERDTree plugin creates a Vim buffer, and displays it in a Vim window. So you can use any of your normal Vim commands.

(1) Thus, if your edit window is to the right of the NERDTree window, you would use: ctrl + Wl to go to right window and ctrl + Wh to go to left window. or ctrl + w twice to toggle between the two.

(2) To go to a special file, simply search for it while in the NERDTree window:

 /xxx

Hit ENTER to end the search at the line, and then ENTER again to open the file in the previous window and go to it.

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