#minbufexplorer

[ushf]

vim MiniBufExplorer

With this plugin in Vim you can list the open buffers with:

:ls

Then jump to any specific buffer (e.g. $N, where that is the number of the buffer displayed in the leftmost column) with

:b$N

Can also cycle through the buffers displayed at at the top with

:bn

Alternately, you can just (not as an ex command) use $N ctrl-^ to cycle through the buffers.

This Drew Neil Vimcast on the FileExplorer gives some excellent information about working without NERDTree.