Getting Fuzzy with CtrlP and Vim

[occam65]

http://pyjamacoder.com/2013/04/25/getting-fuzzy-with-ctrlp/

[johncoltrane]

Hmm, no wonder you prefer CtrlP to your previous workflow, find and grep are two horrible and verbose tools for opening files from Vim!

The canonical way to open a file for editing is:

    :e file

Of course you can use tab-completion:

    :e fi<Tab>

And the "star" wildcard:

    :e f*/fil<Tab>

And the awesome "starstar" wildcard:

    :e **/f*/fil<Tab

It's even better if you activate the "wildmenu" and play with the "wildmode" option:

    filea  fileb  filec  filed
    ------------------------------------
    [filea] fileb filec filed
    ------------------------------------
    :e filea

CtrlP is a great plugin that I use extensively all day long but… there are other ways, beyond find and grep.