How to open netrw at each vim session but have the cursor on the code (and not on the tree) when opening

Question

I found the following chunk of command on this blog to have a file browser open by starting vim that I added to my .vimrc. It splits the window into 2 panes: a file browser and the text editor. The active pane is the file browser one. When quitting (from the text editor pane), we have to quit the editor and then the file browser pane

let g:netrw_banner = 0
let g:netrw_liststyle = 3
let g:netrw_browse_split = 4
let g:netrw_altv = 1
let g:netrw_winsize = 25
augroup ProjectDrawer
  autocmd!
  autocmd VimEnter * :Vexplore
augroup END

What I would like to do have as behaviour is:

1. To have the cursor on the text editor (and not on the file browser) when opening.
2. When closing from the text editor, I want to quit vim altogether (and not having to close the text editor and then close the file browser pane): to have the text editor as "master"

Many thanks for your help!

Answer 1

You can add a second VimScript command to be executed after :Vexplore. Here wincmd w is equivalent to the <Ctrl+w>w key combination which toggles windows (see Vim documentation: windows).

augroup ProjectDrawer
  autocmd!
  autocmd VimEnter * :Vexplore | wincmd w
augroup END

See also this post: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/134759/running-a-vim-key-combination-on-startup