There are other ways to open files in vim. You are not restricted to just using the file tree. There is also :e. e is short for edit.

Lets explore! You can always read the help menu, :h e but we don't need to do that!

Lets reopen back up our vim-nav-playground project.

lets type :e <ctrl-d>. You should see the following

There is also tab completion! Try it out. :e <tab>. But how do we navigate the popup list? Well there are two options. There is the vim way, and the default way that most people would do. I bet you can guess which one you already know... :)

Anywho, arrow keys work, but eww. <C-p> (Ctrl+p, remember this is vim syntax). and <C-n> mean previous and next respectively.

Fuzzy find anyone?

Yes, please! Of course there is a fuzzy finder, but those are installed as plugins. We are not quite there, so let me just show you one of them. It is called telescope.nvim and is available on neovim only. It has an absurd amount of features. I'll only show the fuzzy file finder.