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copied!<p>I used to use a combination of tabs and multiple gvim instances, keeping groups of related files as tabs in each instance. So long as I didn't end up with too many tabs in one instance, the tab bar shows you the name of each file you're editing at a glance.</p> <p>Then I read a post by Jamis Buck on how he switched <a href="http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/10/10/coming-home-to-vim" rel="noreferrer">from TextMate back to vim</a>, and learned some great tricks:</p> <ul> <li>Ctrl-w s and Ctrl-w v to split the current window</li> <li>Ctrl-6 to switch back and forth between two buffers in the same window.</li> <li>the awesome <a href="http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1984" rel="noreferrer">fuzzyfinder.vim</a> which gives you autocompleting search of files in your current directory or of buffers you currently have open</li> <li>Jamis' own <a href="http://github.com/jamis/fuzzy_file_finder/tree/master" rel="noreferrer">fuzzy_file_finder</a> and <a href="http://github.com/jamis/fuzzyfinder_textmate/tree/master" rel="noreferrer">fuzzyfinder_textmate</a>, which slightly modify how fuzzyfinder works to behave more like a similar feature in TextMate (as far as I can tell, the difference is that it matches anywhere in the filename instead of only from the start). Watch <a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/buckblog/videos/fuzzyfinder_textmate.mov" rel="noreferrer">this video</a> to see it in action.</li> </ul> <p>Now I just have one gvim instance, maximised, and split it into multiple windows so I can see several files at once. I bound Ctrl-F to fuzzyfinder_textmate, so now if I type (say) Ctrl-F <code>mod/usob</code> it opens up app/models/user_observer.rb. I almost never bother with tabs any more.</p> <p><strong>Update 2010/08/07</strong></p> <p>While fuzzyfinder_textmate remains awesome, as Casey points out in the comments, it's no longer maintained. Also, it (and/or fuzzyfinder.vim) gets a bit slow and unstable when working with large projects (lots of directories or files), so I've been looking for an alternative.</p> <p>Fortunately, there seems to be a very nice alternative in the form of <a href="http://wincent.com" rel="noreferrer">Wincent Colaiuta</a>'s <a href="https://wincent.com/products/command-t/" rel="noreferrer">Command-T plugin</a>. This has very similar (if not slightly better) behaviour to fuzzyfinder_textmate, but is noticeably faster; it also has nice features like being able to open the found file in a split or vertical split. Thanks (and upvotes!) to David Rivers for pointing to it.</p>

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