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!

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