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I think when I edit services/jobs in rails I get some solid use of VIm, but I find navigating through files to be tedious. In rails I have to do this all the time, and short of installing plugins to make it more "many file friendly", I can't get past that limit.



`nnoremap <space><space> :ls<cr>:b<space>`

Is crucial for my personal workflow and one of the only bindings i require.

I use it in conjunction with

`nnoremap - :Explore<cr>` Which opens the best directory navigator in existence (actually dired should be named here)

This changes the game dramatically.

Read about :ls and :b




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