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Setup NERDTree in your VIM editor
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The NERDTree is a file system explorer for the Vim editor. Using this plugin, users can visually browse complex directory hierarchies, quickly open files for reading or editing, and perform basic file system operations.

To install NERDTree

  1. Go to : https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree
  2. Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree.git
  3. Create a directory , mkdir ~/.vim
  4. Move the contents of the repo to the new directory created mv /path/to/nerdtree-master/* ~/.vim/
  5. Now, open any file with vim and, first press Esc and then type : :NERDTree and you are done!
  6. To go out of NERDTree, press Esc and type q

Note: If you want NERDTree to every time with VIM editor, Make a file vi .vimrc Add this line to always open VIM with NERDTree: autocmd VimEnter * NERDTree

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