NDndesaulniers·Oct 18, 2016
In Vim for Humansctrlpvim
ctrlp.vim
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ctrlpvim / ctrlp.vim
ctrlp.vim
Active fork of kien/ctrlp.vim—Fuzzy file, buffer, mru, tag, etc finder.
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Active fork of kien/ctrlp.vim—Fuzzy file, buffer, mru, tag, etc finder.
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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5 sourcesFor any Windows devs that happen to use vim inside of mintty (that comes with downloading git), you'll discover that installing fzf doesn't work out so well. It'd be fine on cygwin, surely. In mintty, though, it'll yell about missing ncurses and then offer to install the legacy Ruby version, which also fails for curses related reasons.
So, that said, check out ctrl-p.
https://github.com/ctrlpvim/ctrlp.vim
It's a nice quick way to see a filelist that you can filter, like fzf. You can filter on:
* the whole project, excluding .gitignore stuff
* all open buffers
* Most Recently Used (MRU) file list
In addition to the built in ^p binding, I also add:
nnoremap <leader>v :CtrlPMRUFiles<cr>
nnoremap <leader>b :CtrlPBuffer<cr>
In Vim Anti-PatternsThe fact that I can customize VIM to suit my needs with modern methods and plugins that bring same kind of functionality found in more modern editors/development envs to the powerhouse that is VIM.
For example, these are some of my favorites:
https://valloric.github.io/YouCompleteMe/ - Code completion for C/C++ and other languages
https://github.com/ctrlpvim/ctrlp.vim - TextMate style ctrl+p fuzzy file finder
https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree - Tree explorer plugin for browsing files
https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline - Customizable status line for showing all kinds of useful info about currently edited file
https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive - Git wrapper that works together with airline
https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify - Shows your most recently edited files and favorite files on the start screen
https://github.com/
Read the rest
tpope/vim-abolish - Smart text replacement, easily replace eg. getColor, GetColor -> getTransparency, GetColor and so on
And this combined with the fact that I can do all of this from the tip of my fingers, without having to touch the mouse, with high customizable commands that go into my muscle memory, there is no substitute for VIM for me.
I've worked with Eclipse, Xcode, Visual Studio. They have some pretty nice features, like interactive debugging that are hard to replicate with Vim, but I'm more of a "print debug message" kind of guy anyway, so that doesn't bother me.
The biggest hinderance with Visual UIs is that I have to use the mouse, and that sucks. So much faster to do text selection, copying, replacement, renaming and so on straight from the keyboard, once you get used to it.
I'm still discovering active new ways to customize VIM after over 15 years of using it.
evil mode is pretty good, but I find that there's a few rough edges. Also, I can't find a good type-ahead search plugin for picking files like in TextMate, Sublime Text, or (my current preferred tool) the Ctrl-P plugin for Vim [0].
[0] https://github.com/ctrlpvim/ctrlp.vim
In Emac’s Org Mode will improve your software engineeringCtrlP [1] with its fuzzy search is really a delightful way to move around projects with many files. If you have an extraordinary amount of files you can also add ag [2] in the mix [3] for faster searching/grepping.
[1]: https://github.com/ctrlpvim/ctrlp.vim
[2]: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
[3]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18285751/use-ag-in-ctrlp-...
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