Sunday, February 5, 2012

Re: Fuzzy Finder vs CtrlP

On 02/05/2012 01:34 AM, Chris Lott wrote:
> Has anyone used Fuzzy Finder and CTRLP enough to have thoughts on
> which one might be preferable? They seem quite similar, but I might be
> missing something that will come back to haunt me later :)

I used FuzzyFinder over a year ago and am now using CtrlP. I also used
Command-t in between. Of those 3 plugins, CtrlP is IMHO by far the best,
although command-t is also nice.
I found FuzzyFinder to be rather slow and have some strange behaviour
from time to time. Command-t is fast, because it uses a small external
application (written in C I believe) to scan for files. CtrlP is also
very fast, because it caches the file list. CtrlP is entirely written in
Vimscript, and that is one of the advantages over Command-T. I can use
CtrlP without any problem on my Nokia N900, while command-t is a lot
more difficult because of it's dependencies on Ruby and a C compiler.
Also CtrlP has more features. It can scan files in the current
directory, from the root of your repository (if using Git for example),
it can scan open buffers, most recently used files, tags etc. With ctrlp
you can also create files and open multiple files at once.

Hope this helps,
Jeroen


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