Vim a day - Part 1

This is the first blog post from the Vim a day series.

The post is about the plugin ctrlP which is available here.This plugin is really useful since it lets you jump between files really quickly.

If you are using Vundle, its really easy to install.

Plugin 'kien/ctrlp.vim'

Now typing control + p does a quick fuzzy search in the current directory.Some of the quick shortcuts that I came across.

Open the file in a new tab Open the file as vertical split Open the file as horizontal split Lastly there is an essential configuration that could really speed up the fuzzy search let g:ctrlp_user_command = ['.git/', 'git --git-dir=%s/.git ls-files -oc --exclude-standard'] This ignores the files in .git folder and the .gitignore file.