z jump around equivalent for editing files?

Question

Is there an equivalent to z jump around for opening most edited files with a terminal editor like vim in my case? I have browsed GitHub but couldn't find anything.

Answer 1

Vim remembers recently opened files by v:oldfiles which is loaded from ~/.viminfo file.

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Custom completion

With fzf and custom-fuzzy-completion, we can search for file from history more naturally, like vim **<TAB> with follows

# Custom fuzzy completion for "vim" command
#   e.g. vim **<TAB>
_fzf_complete_vim() {
  _fzf_complete --multi --reverse --prompt="vim> " -- "$@" < <(
      cat ~/.viminfo | grep '^>' | sed 's/^> //'
  )
}

In zsh you're good to go. In bash, you have to manually call thecomplete command.

[ -n "$BASH" ] && complete -F _fzf_complete_vim -o default -o bashdefault vim

As the documentation says, the custom completion API is experimental and subject to change.

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The previous answer using a new command

For instance, we can read history from it and search for file using fzf as follows

#!/bin/bash

file=$(cat ~/.viminfo | grep '^>' | sed 's/^> //' | fzf)
file=${file/#\~/$HOME}
if [ ! -z "$file" ]; then
  vim $file
fi

• Read .viminfo. Get the opened file list. Pass it to fzf
• Replace ~ with $HOME (Vim doesn't expand ~ in the file argument)
• Open the file if not empty

You can save it as vim-history.sh and run it in the terminal.