Bye Bye NerdTree. Hello CommandT
CommandT is an awesome vim plugin made by Wincent Colaiuta of http://wincent.com . Its been around for a while but I wasn’t able to use it earlier since it requires vim complied with ruby support which the standard Ubuntu vim package lacks. I tried compiling it from source but after a couple of hours of struggling to meet dependencies, I gave it up. Recently, I heard that v1.0 of the plugin had been released and figured the time was ripe for another attempt. Turns out what I had to do was crazy simple. On Ubuntu 10.04 just
sudo apt-get install vim-gtk
For some reason vim-ruby which is the only package you need is a virtual package included in vim-gtk, vim-nox or vim-gnome. So just install one of them, grab the vba, open it up in vim and so :so %.
This is way better than NerdTree and FuzzyFinder for file navigation for obvious reasons: It doesn’t take up screen real estate, files are fewer key taps away and its blazingly fast. Enjoy using it.
