Is there something similar for emacs like vims's NERDtree

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For vim there is a filesystem explorer called NERDtree: https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree

Surely an alternative or superior package exists for Emacs?

Conner answered 21/8, 2010 at 15:40 Comment(3)

you'd reach a much wider audience if you explained what NERDtree does. – Jeffry 21/8, 2010 at 15:58

It's a vim plugin, "A tree explorer plugin for navigating the filesystem", see vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1658 – Scrappy 21/8, 2010 at 16:6

how come this question not been flagged?? because its asking for recomendation! but still a very useful one :p – Lamentable 21/9, 2019 at 10:52

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I prefer dirtree (screenshot below) by Ye Wenbin. It feels pretty close to NERDTree / the TextMate drawer.

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It took me a few minutes of trial and error to figure out the dependencies, so take a look at the install instructions (and a few minor edits to the source) I've got in this repo.

Stipend answered 27/8, 2011 at 10:10 Comment(4)

how did you get the bar at the bottom that lists the open buffers? – Prosopopoeia 22/10, 2011 at 18:42

The bar at the bottom isn't part of Emacs, it's Tmux, a terminal multiplexer similar to screen. – Pullman 11/11, 2011 at 21:42

Where did you get that theme from? – Lymphosarcoma 19/4, 2013 at 19:35

I just find it funny that you have a nsfw directory there. :) – Eighteen 6/2, 2015 at 14:51

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You can try NeoTree .

https://github.com/jaypei/emacs-neotree

Screenshot:

NeoTree

Lissalissak answered 11/4, 2014 at 14:20 Comment(1)

It seems you cannot mark multiple files to do some operations with it in Emacs-neotree, as in Dired. – Parolee 22/1, 2016 at 20:42

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Have you looked at Speedbar ?

Alary answered 21/8, 2010 at 16:21 Comment(0)

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The Sunrise Commander seems to be a well written package, and it has a tree extension. For a screenshot of the tree extension in action, follow this link.

Cassius answered 21/8, 2010 at 16:29 Comment(0)

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Who needs any tree, when you have the mighty ido-mode . If you can train your mind to find the files, rather than just your eyes whilst visually finding it, you will win. NO need to tell me how biology works, i don't care :-) you get the point.

Bursiform answered 18/2, 2012 at 0:30 Comment(4)

ido-mode and projectile with their fuzzy search are extremely useful when you already know the project you work on and it's file names in particular. But directory tree view is still very helpful when you're just exploring the project and don't know what to search. – Reggie 26/8, 2013 at 8:5

personally if i am 'surfing' my directories i use C+x C+d or dired mode for such things. Or the explorer/Finder which has more helpful 'get to know the environment' gui. or ls -la in terminal. or my grep command in console to grep for an exact match in the files (if needed). The great thing about our linux is there are many ways to skin this cat. I feel you, but I think separating church and state here is a great thing. – Bursiform 26/8, 2013 at 10:45

I gotta agree about ido-mode and projectile but just wanted to throw in ack-and-a-half too. With those three I'm more productive than anything while searching through files. – Saleswoman 13/5, 2014 at 21:12

helm-projectile is also a nice way of quickly finding files in a project. – Kristof 19/9, 2014 at 21:40

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Personally, I prefer the ECB's tree mode. http://ecb.sourceforge.net/

You should also check out the CEDET stuff. http://cedet.sourceforge.net/ They contain a lot of other useful stuff that you can use for similar development needs.

Hhd answered 20/2, 2012 at 12:48 Comment(0)

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I use a little of emacs-nav and a little of dired to navigate my projects' file trees. For file management tasks, I mostly use bash (often from within emacs).

Llama answered 21/8, 2010 at 18:33 Comment(1)

It depends a lot on what your requirements are of course, but I think dired is better than many people give it credit for. Also, the built-in dired-x library with its oh-so-useful dired-jump command and binding is disabled by default, which is a shame. See (info "(dired-x) Miscellaneous Commands") and (info "(dired-x) Optional Installation Dired Jump") – Ridenour 27/8, 2011 at 11:16

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(Shameless reanswer from A good project tree browser for Emacs? - Stack Overflow)

I just now did a word search for "explore" in package-list-packages, and discovered project-explorer. Seems to fit exactly what I want today (I don't code hardly, but getting a grip on the structure of my Jekyll site).

Keys include TAB for folding and unfolding directories. Open files with RET or f, but with prefix, it will prompt nicely for which window, and even from there allow you to decide to use window or open up a new one to any side (I didn't find the prompt string in the package code, so it seems to leverage built in Emacs functionality nicely; indeed it looks like dired even).

It's available on Melpa and Marmalade, and packaged description points to sabof_project-explorer · GitHub.

I include the site's image for convenience:

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I don't use projectile or helm, but it has some integration.

Evelyn answered 3/11, 2014 at 0:18 Comment(0)

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Try out lusty-explorer. It's a well done plugin. Get it here

Constrictive answered 6/7, 2013 at 7:34 Comment(0)

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