A cleaner file browsing interface for vim

January 2, 2015

TLDW: add this to your ~/.vimrc:

" hide the giant banner at the top of netrw
let g:netrw_banner=0
" hide gitignored files from netrw
let g:netrw_list_hide=netrw_gitignore#Hide()

And then use netrw instead of NERDTree.