ctrlp.vim

Fuzzy file, buffer, mru, tag, ... finder for Vim.

• Written in pure Vimscript for MacVim, gVim and Vim 7.0+.
• Full support for Vim's regexp as search patterns.
• Built-in Most Recently Used (MRU) files monitoring.
• Built-in project's root finder.
• Open multiple files at once.
• Create new files and directories.
• Extensible.

Installation

1. Clone the plugin into a separate directory:

   $ cd ~/.vim
   $ git clone https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim.git bundle/ctrlp.vim
   

2. Add to your ~/.vimrc:

   set runtimepath^=~/.vim/bundle/ctrlp.vim
   

3. Run at Vim's command line:

   :helptags ~/.vim/bundle/ctrlp.vim/doc
   

4. Restart Vim and start reading :help ctrlp.txt for usage and configuration details.

On Windows, use the $HOME/vimfiles or the $VIM/vimfiles directory instead of the ~/.vim directory.

Usage

1. See :help ctrlp-commands and :help ctrlp-extensions.

2. Once the prompt's open:

   • Press <c-f> and <c-b> to cycle between modes.
   • Press <c-d> to switch to filename only search instead of full path.
   • Press <F5> to purge the cache for the current directory and get new files.
   • Submit two or more dots .. to go up the directory tree by one or multiple levels.
   • Use <c-n>, <c-p> to go to the next/previous string in the prompt's history.
   • Use <c-y> to create a new file and its parent dirs.
   • Use <c-z> to mark/unmark multiple files and <c-o> to open them.
   • End the input string with a colon : followed by a command to execute it on the opening file(s).

   More at :help ctrlp-mappings.

Configuration

• Unless a starting directory is specified, the local working directory will be set according to this variable:

  let g:ctrlp_working_path_mode = 2
  

  0 - don't manage working directory.
  1 - the directory of the current file.
  2 - the nearest ancestor that contains one of these directories or files: .git .hg .svn .bzr _darcs

  Define additional root markers with the g:ctrlp_root_markers option.

• Exclude files and directories:

  set wildignore+=*/tmp/*,*.so,*.swp,*.zip  " MacOSX/Linux
  set wildignore+=tmp\*,*.swp,*.zip,*.exe   " Windows
  
  let g:ctrlp_custom_ignore = '\.git$\|\.hg$\|\.svn$'
  let g:ctrlp_custom_ignore = {
    \ 'dir':  '\.git$\|\.hg$\|\.svn$',
    \ 'file': '\.exe$\|\.so$\|\.dll$',
    \ 'link': 'some_bad_symbolic_links',
    \ }
  

• Use a custom file listing command:

  let g:ctrlp_user_command = 'find %s -type f'        " MacOSX/Linux
  let g:ctrlp_user_command = 'dir %s /-n /b /s /a-d'  " Windows
  

More at :help ctrlp-options.