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I wrote a snappy Ruby-based Vim plugin called LustyExplorer which does fuzzy/flex matching for opening files and switching buffers: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1890

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Not to downplay your contributions (thank you), but just letting people know about other options:

FuzzyFinder Textmate http://github.com/jamis/fuzzyfinder_textmate (Unfortunately only works with fuzzyfinder up until v2.16)

and more recently

Command-T http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3025

i've written a plugin as well. it's extremely simple: it uses find (or globpath() if you do not like external dependencies) to build a local cache. matching isn't approximate but you get results on partial matches and can browse files in directories (something i really missed in some other solutions).

i recorded a quick screencast: http://pipsq.com/s.mov

note that i'm matching against the linux source; searching smaller source trees should be a lot faster.

you can try it out by downloading the following files:

http://github.com/strange/dotfiles/blob/master/.vim/plugin/p... http://github.com/strange/dotfiles/blob/master/.vim/autoload...

launch with :Pyxis or create a map:

noremap <leader>e :Pyxis<CR> noremap <silent> <leader>E :PyxisUpdateCache<CR>

I also wrote a plugin to bring Jamis' fuzzyfinder to emacs: http://ruby-on-the-interrails.blogspot.com/2008/10/introduci...

Thanks, that Command-T seems promising https://wincent.com/blog/bringing-textmate-style-command-t-t...

Oh, and also a version for Emacs: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LustyExplorer

I was looking for something like this. Thanks!

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