VIM 7: disabling netrw in vim to get explorer.vim back! - Editors

wlcna wrote:
> Anyone know of a way to get back the old functionality with directory
> listing (i.e. :Explore, :Sexplore), because the netrw in vim 7 now
> taking the place of explorer.vim is driving me nuts. I always thought
> it was a really, really annoying, badly written package (having dealt
> with it a bit in the past) and now it's been integrated into vim in a
> supposedly transparent way and my main key shortcut "O" no longer works
> and there's apparently no other key that does the same (going through
> the help for it).
>
> So this thing is driving me nuts - does anyone know a simple way to
> restore the old explorer.vim?
>
>


Let me guess: you don't have an updated netrw. You've never bothered to
mention any problems you might be having to its maintainer. You probably
use windows; there has been a considerable qty of updates to netrw to support
windows since 7.0 was released.

And, about all that help you looked through for O in the help file is this
little snippet:

* Explorer's O functionality was inadvertently left out.
Netrw now does the same thing, but with the "P" key.

Since its supposed to "edit a file in the previously used window", the P
makes better mnemonic sense, IMHO.

Sounds like you've been driven nuts!
Dart