VIM VTreeExplorer plugin (IDE style browsing for VIM)

I've looked at a number of the IDE style file explorer / management plugins for VIM. The most popular one seems to be Project, but I've never got on well with it. Specifically, having to always create a .project file for the files you want to browse, and that changes to th开发者_StackOverflow社区at file hierarchy outside of VIM are not picked up.

I stumbled across the VTreeExplorer plugin and I really like the way it works. I'm trying to work out how I can make it work in a more IDE style way, for instance, to always open vertically down the full length of my window, and once I've opened a file from it, it automatically hides the VTreeExplorer buffer again? Also, ideally it wouldn't show up when I use :bn or a buffer explorer to tab through each file buffer.

Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks!

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What about NERDTree? It is really good, one of the best file tree plugin for vim available.