Question

Both of these plugins require Vim to be compiled with Ruby support, need to be compiled themselves using the same version of Ruby, etc. Is there a plugin which does the same job, but doesn’t require installation other than dropping it into vimfiles directory?

UPDATE: These plugins allow to open files/buffers by typing characters which appear in their path, not necessarily in a row. I.e. if your directory has files

foo/bar.txt
foo/baz.vim
zee.c

you can type

,t f

and only two matching files are shown; after you add r, only one file is left and it can be opened by pressing <Return>.

Answer 1

Using the latest fuzzyfinder vim plugin you can use

:FufCoverageFile

to mimic the global search features of fuzzyfinder_textmate and Command-T. No ruby needed.

Need also to have vim >= 7.2