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The goal of this chapter is to give you an introduction on how to search quickly in Vim. Being able to search quickly is a great way to jump-start your Vim productivity. When I figured out how to search files quickly, I made the switch to use Vim full-time. This chapter is divided into two parts: how to search without plugins and how to search with fzf.vim plugin. Let's get started! To open a file in Vim, you can use :edit. If file.txt exists, it opens the file.txt buffer. If file.txt doesn't exist, it creates a new buffer for file.txt. Autocomplete with <Tab> works with :edit. For example, if your file is inside a Rails app controller users controller directory ./app/controllers/users_controllers.rb, you can use <Tab> to expand the terms quickly: :edit accepts wildcards arguments. * matches any file in the current directory. If you are only looking for files with .yml extension in the current directory: Vim will give you a list of all .yml files in the current directory to choose from

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