The Vim tree control plugin provides support for creating and using a tree control in a Vim window. The tree control can be used by Vim plugins to present information in a tree form to the user and is suited for displaying information that is hierarchical in nature. The tree control manages the tree, the associated window and the buffer.

Some examples for the plugins that will benefit from using the tree control are file manager, buffer explorer, tags explorer, Favorites, Most Recently Used (MRU) files, etc.