There's a (Vim Plugin) For That Part 1: Fuzzy Finder (blog.carbonfive.com)

Nice! This might be the final reason to abandon RubyMine.

Command-T is a much more maintained version of this, last time I checked: https://wincent.com/products/command-t

I couldn't live without Fuzzy Finder, and the following two lines in my .vimrc file which really make it fast and simple:

"re-map <leader> from \ to , (comma) to avoid a reach

let mapleader = ","

" map comma-f to open fuzzy finder in the working dir,

" ready for a wildcard filename search

map <leader>f :FufFileWithFullCwd /<CR>

I started with FuzzyFinder, and although I've been using PeepOpen lately, I think I'll be going back to FuzzyFinder. It makes it easy to traverse the entire filesystem (which PeepOpen does not), and it makes directory structure apparent for situations where I don't remember the exact filename, but I don't want to mess with a full tree browser either.

nnoremap <F2> :<C-u>FufRenewCache<CR> " Updates cache, useful after adding or removing files

nnoremap <C-t> :<C-u>FufFile /<CR> " Makes the search recursive

Nice tip, thanks! Vim is full of treasures :)

What a coincidence: I wanted something like this and created a similar, albeit much simpler, plugin[1]. I've been trying to work around a bug (an event wasn't triggered when the completion menu is visible) for a long time and finally found a solution today when searching through GitHub. The project I found the solution in was FuzzyFinder. So I implemented a fix, but got curious about the plugin itself (I've used it before, but it was quite buggy back when). So I searched YouTube for some videos, and the one I watched was the one the OP made :)

[1] https://github.com/strange/pyxis-vim

I like LustyExplorer (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1890). I've mapped its 3 features like this:

,f to choose a file

,b to choose a buffer

,g to search for a word/pattern in active buffers

In each case the results are filtered incrementally, more or less like in all the other similar vim plugins and the original in TextMate.

did they fix the bugs where your keypresses could appear out of order? because seriously, I don't want to have to slow down my typing to get software to work.

For emacs there is http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings

What I would love is a fuzzy finder that also did a 'git grep' for the search string too, so I could open files defining a function for example.

I tried to ditch Command-T in favor of FuzzyFinder, but it really can't replace Command-T.

I'm unable to recursively search for a file in my current project dir. Even when I do funny things like

  :FufFind **/

it takes forever to scan the project dir and then doesn't come up with the file I want.

As much as I want this to be an alternative to Command-T, it isn't :(