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I've been using vscode in java because of the cumbersome file navigation in bash. Is there easy full tree navigation in vim?

It may also be because the terminal view is much smaller than vscode's smaller navigation font so I can see much less of the file tree in a terminal program such as ranger.

I also never really mastered windows although I did master vim buffers.

I do use tmux.

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In my workflow I've integrated both ranger file manager and fzf as file pickers: fzf when I'm inside a git repo ('git ls-files | fzf' - but doesn't have to be this way), and ranger for elsewhere. Both ranger and fzf are amenable to being used for this purpose, so all it takes is a couple of lines of hand-rolled vimscript - no need to wait for a third party integration plugin to drop.

What's a rough sketch of your idea for the vimscript?

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