I have made the move from TextMate to VIM. I can not use macvim, policy at work does not allow me to install it. I have tried installing command-t to give me "go to file" functionality. However as I am using VIM with the osx terminal, when I press command-t it opens a new tab.
I have now decided to try FuzzyFinder but can not figure out how to search across a directory recursively for a file with it, could anyone show me how to go to a file like command-t but using FuzzyFinder. :-/
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You could map it to ctrl or shift easily, which won't conflict with your OS like command, via:
nmap <C-t> :CommandT<CR>
# or
nmap T :CommandT<CR>
In normal fuzzyfinder to search through a directory you can use file globs, like **, e.g., at the fuzzyfinder prompt:
>File>**/yourpattern
Will search all directories under the current directory for your pattern. Just be wary not to try to do that on large filesystems, or you're going to be waiting a while and/or running out of memory. It will index the tree in memory after the first search though, and will be faster afterwards.
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Fuzzy finder is not under active development. You're way better off with the awesome Command-t. The problem is terminal Vim does support it because terminal Vim needs to be built with Ruby support. It's fairly straightforward to build Vim from source to enable this.
http://brilliantcorners.org/2011/02/building-vim-on-osx-snow-leopard/
Guide for Snow Leopard but works for Lion too. You'll need to have XCode installed, not just the GCC compiler.
Command-T describes its intended use inside MacVim. If you want to use it inside terminal Vim, use the default binding
<Leader>t(by default,<Leader>is the backslash key). You can remap this in your Vim config if you'd rather use a modifier key binding.