On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 at 7:53pm, Erik Bergman wrote: > I've been searching for a nice way to quickly open files that may reside in > any of number of directories, similar to the "quick open" feature you find > in some other editors. One solution is to mess around with the ** and * > wildcards, but this gets terribly slow for large projects. Another > "solution" is to set the 'path' variable, but vim does not perform > completion on files opened that way. A third solution is to generate file > name tags and use :tag to jump to files, but in that case you will perform > completion on just not file names, but other tags as well. Finally, you can > open all files you need to switch between and use :b, but for obvious > reasons this isn't very practical. > > What I think would be an nice solution is if there was some way to make vim > perform file name completion using 'file' tags from the tag file. That way > you could still use tags for other things, and most often the files you > generate tags for are exactly the files you want to be able to open and > switch between quickly. > > Can anyone think of a better solution? Would it be possible to integrate > this feature into vim in a nice way? > > /Erik Berman
Have you looked at my LookupFile plugin from vim.org? I think it has exactly what you need. -- Hari ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/
