vimfiler

A powerful file explorer implemented in Vim script

Note: Active development on vimfiler.vim has stopped. The only future changes will be bug fixes.

Please see Defx.nvim. https://github.com/Shougo/vimfiler.vim/issues/380

Introduction

vimfiler is a powerful file explorer ("filer") written in Vim script.

Usage

To start vimfiler, run this command:

:VimFiler

If you set g:vimfiler_as_default_explorer to 1, vimfiler will be used as the default explorer (instead of netrw.)

:let g:vimfiler_as_default_explorer = 1

vimfiler depends on unite.vim.

Please install unite.vim 3.0 or later before you install vimfiler.

Note: To use vimfiler with files larger than 2 GB, vimfiler requires Vim to have Lua support (|if_lua|).

Screenshots

Common operations

Explorer feature (similar to NERDTree)

Dark theme

What are some of the advantages vimfiler offers compared to other file explorers?

• Integration with unite
• Integration with vimshell
• External sources (for example, unite-ssh)
• vimfiler is highly customizable.
• Many options (see |vimfiler-options|)
• Fast (if your version of Vim has |if_lua| enabled)
• Column customization
• Support for more than one screen