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I like that he mentioned CtrlP. It's the single plugin that prevents me from switching to Emacs. There is currently nothing in Emacs (last I played with this

I like that he mentioned CtrlP. It's the single plugin that prevents me from switching to Emacs. There is currently nothing in Emacs (last I played with this was 3 months ago) that is 100% equivalent to CtrlP. There are some close approximations but they're not as good the real deal. I can understand how Emacs guys won't even notice this because they've not worked with something that's better than the best they have, but for Vim guys it sucks.

mklappstuhl 12y ago
Agree. I'm using projectile[1] for now but that somehow messes things up with caching files so that I actually cannot search my project files. I assume that might be a fault on my side though. Have you tried projectile? From reading the Readme this was exactly what I was looking for as a Ctrl-P replacement. [1] https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile
- mziulu 12y ago
  I've had some weird things happen too when searching for files in a project using projectile, I fix it by triggering a refresh of the cache by prefixing with a C-u the C-c p f command.
- austintaylor 12y ago
  I use projectile with caching turned off with flx-ido for sorting. I heavily favor (projectile-find-buffer) once I get going since loading the whole tree is pretty slow on a large project. I'm way more happy with this setup than I was with CtrlP.
kasey_junk 12y ago
I've actually started preferring the unite plugin over CtrlP even.
phaer 12y ago
Could you elaborate on the features you are missing from ido-mode and helm?
Attic 12y ago
I used Vim before switching to Emacs, and also used CtrlP. I've also had the pain of not being able to find a good replacement for CtrlP until I discovered Helm and more specific Helm-ls-git https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm-ls-git https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm-ls-git . Now I have the opposite problem that Vim doesn't have anything as good as the collection of Helm plugins that I use.
tuhdo 12y ago
Because something much better than CtrlP exists: http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html Demo: I can search my desired file in linux kernel source with more than 40k files in an instant: http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html#sec-28 http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html#sec-28 If you want to find the equivalent, use ido + flx + vertical-ido.

mklappstuhl 12y ago

Agree. I'm using projectile[1] for now but that somehow messes things up with caching files so that I actually cannot search my project files. I assume that might be a fault on my side though. Have you tried projectile? From reading the Readme this was exactly what I was looking for as a Ctrl-P replacement. [1] https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile

mziulu 12y ago
I've had some weird things happen too when searching for files in a project using projectile, I fix it by triggering a refresh of the cache by prefixing with a C-u the C-c p f command.
austintaylor 12y ago
I use projectile with caching turned off with flx-ido for sorting. I heavily favor (projectile-find-buffer) once I get going since loading the whole tree is pretty slow on a large project. I'm way more happy with this setup than I was with CtrlP.

kasey_junk 12y ago

I've actually started preferring the unite plugin over CtrlP even.

phaer 12y ago

Could you elaborate on the features you are missing from ido-mode and helm?

Attic 12y ago

I used Vim before switching to Emacs, and also used CtrlP. I've also had the pain of not being able to find a good replacement for CtrlP until I discovered Helm and more specific Helm-ls-git https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm-ls-git https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm-ls-git . Now I have the opposite problem that Vim doesn't have anything as good as the collection of Helm plugins that I use.

tuhdo 12y ago

Because something much better than CtrlP exists: http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html Demo: I can search my desired file in linux kernel source with more than 40k files in an instant: http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html#sec-28 http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html#sec-28 If you want to find the equivalent, use ido + flx + vertical-ido.