I’ve been using NERDTree for quite some time but …

I’ve been using NERDTree for quite some time but lately, it became so frustratingly buggy and slow it became almost unusable! So, this morning I’m ditching it in favor of fern.vim, which after some tests looks very promising! It’s written in Pure Vim script to be blazing fast, but at the same time, it’s also highly configurable and has plugins for everything I need. Here is my current config:

Plug 'lambdalisue/fern.vim'
Plug 'lambdalisue/fern-git-status.vim'
Plug 'lambdalisue/glyph-palette.vim'
Plug 'lambdalisue/nerdfont.vim'
Plug 'lambdalisue/fern-renderer-nerdfont.vim'
Plug 'lambdalisue/fern-hijack.vim'
Plug 'andykog/fern-highlight.vim'

nnoremap <leader>e :Fern . -drawer -toggle -width=40 -reveal=%<cr>
let g:fern#renderer = "nerdfont"

augroup my-glyph-palette
  autocmd! *
  autocmd FileType fern call glyph_palette#apply()
  autocmd FileType nerdtree,startify call glyph_palette#apply()
augroup END