Nerdtree: Cannot enter child dirs

[calvinfroedge]

All my folders have ?~V? before them and I cannot enter into directories with the enter key. Any ideas? I installed via pathogen. Here is a screenshot of what I'm experiencing: http://screencast.com/t/X9jarQ9W

[scrooloose]

nerdtree uses a couple of unicode arrow chars next to directories and it looks like your version of vim cant handle those chars. The fix is to stick this in your vimrc: let g:NERDTreeDirArrows=0. This makes the tree use a more old school looking ui with no unicode chars.

Can you paste the results of :version here? I want to know if there any vim compile time options that indicate it cant handle unicode. Assuming it is vim and not the terminal thats the problem :-/

[calvinfroedge]

Thanks, dude! That fixed it = )

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Jan 5 2012 20:58:08)
MacOS X (unix) version

[nickjj]

I had this problem too, and your solution fixed it for me as well using the same version as calvin.

[hiddenwaffle]

If you'd still like to try to get the arrow characters to work, here is my answer from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7375198/why-does-my-nerd-tree-have-these-odd-characters. I run Arch Linux, so your mileage may vary.

I had this exact same problem and was able to fix it by uncommenting UTF-8 and leaving ISO-8879-1 commented out in /etc/locale.gen. Then I ran locale-gen and restarted. Also added 'export LANG=en_US.UTF-8' to my .bashrc. Here are the results of my locale settings once it started working:

[lysistrata@(none) ~]$ locale -a
C
en_US.utf8
POSIX
[lysistrata@(none) ~]$

[webdesserts]

I would like to get the arrows to work as well, but I'm on Windows. Any ideas?

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Oct 27 2010 17:59:02)
MS-Windows 32-bit GUI version with OLE support

[joseriosneto]

I had almost the same problem on Mountain Lion 10.8.4 and Vim 7.3

Setting vim encoding to utf-8 with set encoding=utf-8 fixed it.

[bitwombat]

This happens with Putty on Windows ssh'ed into an Ubuntu box.

The export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 suggestion didn't help, and in fact makes the cursor "consume" characters as you move around. let g:NERDTreeDirArrows=0 does fix it, but then I'm looking like a grandpa stuck in ASCII days.

[zwhitchcox]

This is broken again.

[zwhitchcox]

Don't know what happened, but it fixed itself, nvmd

[lacostenycoder]

try just adding this to your .vimrc
set encoding=utf-8

[Dvbnhbq]

@lacostenycoder Thank you, that worked for me on Windows 10 WLS, which is xenial with old VIM 7.4.

[amaxcz]

let g:NERDTreeDirArrowExpandable = '>'
let g:NERDTreeDirArrowCollapsible = 'v'

works well without utf-8