> I'm pretty sure Command+P is much better than anything Vim could offer for quickly opening files
Actually, you're wrong here: https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim.
Actually, you're wrong here: https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim.
https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim
Fzf is an incredible fuzzy finder, integrates into your shell really well (history search is brilliant) and the wrapper in vim is lightning fast.