Vim directory content?

Question

Is there a plugin or something like this that can show directories content in vim.

For example, when you do

vim /path/to/dir/

and there are another directories inside we have the following structure:

../                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
./
dir1/
dir2/
dir3/

What I am looking for is something close to this:

../                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
./
dir1/
 \_file1
dir2/
 \_file2
dir3/
  \_dir4
      \_file3

Answer 1

As an alternative to switching to another plugin (like the mentioned NERDTree), you can also reconfigure the netrw plugin (that ships with Vim and gives you the directory listing) to default to an expandable tree, as per :help g:netrw_liststyle:

let g:netrw_liststyle = 3

Answer 2

There are vim plugins for that. A popular one is e.g.

NERDTree.