Vim - command - T

Question

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. :-/

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.