Finding file under cursor on VIM
Working in a big project, I had the problem that the scripts included lots of files and used a lot of templates that were called programatically, because of that, I was looking for files a lot.
Searching the vim wiki I found a script that is used to find files inside a directory and choose the file you need. I’ve modified it a bit and finally it looks like this:
"Function for finding files " Find file in current directory and edit it. function! Find(name) let l:list=system("find . -name '".a:name."*[htm|html|php]' | grep -v .svn | perl -ne 'print \"$.\\t$_\"'") let l:num=strlen(substitute(l:list, "[^\n]", "", "g")) if l:num < 1 echo "'".a:name."' not found" return endif if l:num != 1 echo l:list let l:input=input("Which ? (CR=nothing)\n") if strlen(l:input)==0 return endif if strlen(substitute(l:input, "[0-9]", "", "g"))>0 echo "Not a number" return endif if l:input<1 || l:input>l:num echo "Out of range" return endif let l:line=matchstr("\n".l:list, "\n".l:input."\t[^\n]*") else let l:line=l:list endif let l:line=substitute(l:line, "^[^\t]*\t./", "", "") execute ":e ".l:line endfunction command! -nargs=1 Find :call Find("<args>")
The function is used doing something like
:Find <name>
The real thing here is to map a keybiding to search the file where the cursor is standing.. Like this:
:nmap <leader>f "zyiw:exe "Find ".@z.""<CR>
This way, with the keystroke “\f” you start the function searching for the word under cursor. Be aware that the keybinding changes if you modified your leader variable.
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