Plugin spotlight – Vinegar

Tim Pope's vinegar.vim is a simple plugin that addresses the difficulty of using project drawers with Vim split window functionality. Plugins such as NERDTree become rather disorienting to work with when you have more than one window open in a split.

In the following example, three windows are open (and a fourth NERDTree window on the left): 

 When pressing Enter with the cursor in the NERDTree window, which window will the new file be opened in?

Hint: it's the bottom left one—but you don't have a way of knowing that. NERDTree opens files in the last created window.

Tim Pope solves this problem with a small plugin called Vinegar, which makes using Netrw a more seamless experience. It's available over at https://github.com/tpope/vim-vinegar (see Installing plugins for installation instructions). 

If you have NERDTree installed when using Vinegar, you'll get a NERDTree window instead of Netrw. To avoid NERDTree replacing Netrw (and to make commands like - work), set   let NERDTreeHijackNetrw = 0 in your .vimrc  file.

Vinegar adds a handy new mapping: - (dash) to open Netrw in a current directory. Try it out:

The plugin hides Netrw's help bar, which might be confusing at first. Hit I (uppercase i) to bring it back. Another shortcut, Shift + ~ key, takes you to your home directory, which is often where you'll store your projects.

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