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CtrlP Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

Full path fuzzy file, buffer, mru, tag, ... finder for Vim.

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Basic Usage

:CtrlP or :CtrlP [start­ing­-di­rec­tory]
to invoke CtrlP in find file mode.
:CtrlP­Buffer or :CtrlPMRU
to start CtrlP in find buffer or find MRU file mode.
:CtrlP­Mixed
to search in Files, Buffers and MRU files at the same time.
:help ctrlp-­com­mands and :help ctrlp-­ext­ensions
for other commands.

For further reference

  

Once CtrlP is Open

<F5>
to purge the cache for the current directory to get new files, remove deleted files and apply new ignore options.
<C-­f> and <C-­b>
to cycle between modes.
<C-­d>
to switch to filename search instead of full path.
<C-­r>
to switch to regexp mode.
<C-­j>, <C-­k>
or the arrow keys to navigate the result.
<C-­t> or <C-­v>, <C-­x>
to open the selected entry in a new tab or in a new split.
<C-­n>, <C-­p>
to select the next/p­revious string in the prompt's history.
<C-­y>
to create a new file and its parent direct­ories.
<C-­z>
to mark/u­nmark multiple files and <C-­o> to open them.
..
to go up the directory tree by one or multiple levels.
End the input string with a colon :
followed by a command to execute it on the opening file(s): Use :25 to jump to line 25. Use :diffthis when opening multiple files to run :diffthis on the first 4 files.
Run :help ctrlp-­map­pings or submit ? in CtrlP for more mapping help.