A few months back, I installed a utility on my mac so that instead of typing something like this:
vim /type/path/to/the/file
I could just type:
v file
9 times out of 10 it would guess the right file based on the past history, similar to the way autojump works. And instead of typing in vim I can just type the letter v.
I can't remember how I set this up though. It still works on my mac but I don't see anything in my .bash_profile that shows how I did that.
I'm trying to get this to work on my linux box.
This can be found here
https://github.com/rupa/v/blob/master/v
it should work in Linux too. It is a bash script that uses the viminfo history file to fill in partial strings.
It can be installed on macOS with brew install v