I recently wrote something very similar to Emacs' ^xf for VIM. Sadly I haven't the time to work on it as much as I would like. For those who are interested: you

I recently wrote something very similar to Emacs' ^xf for VIM. Sadly I haven't the time to work on it as much as I would like. For those who are interested: you can grab it at https://github.com/Bogdanp/quicksilver.vim https://github.com/Bogdanp/quicksilver.vim .