Why do you think Project.vim stinks? I've been using it for nearly a year now on a daily basis and I can't live without it.
I tried your plugin out and it worked well, but I have no reason to switch. The one thing I can't do without is being able to quickly search through all of the files in my project. Is there any way to do this within Proj?
Nope, it's simple by design. Project.vim seems mainly for projects that need to pull in files from all over the place and probably fulfills that goal well. If I need to search the working directory, I'll use ':!grep -RI "term" .' (or vim's grep which is pretty nice).
I say that project.vim stinks because it's awkward and its usage is unclear. Maybe I've never "gotten" it, but I think there are many others like myself who really, really wanted to like project.vim but just couldn't use it.
I have my mind on other goals. One is to add a toggleable split that gives useful version control information by integrating with the VCS plugin.
Sorry, I was a bit vague. I also use grep -R to search through files. I meant searching for files. As in, I have hundreds of files and I want to quickly open bar.rb which is buried in some directly. In project.vim I type '^wh/bar.rb[enter]\s' and boom, I'm in that file.
I guess that's honestly the main functionality I get out of project.vim. I can't comment on how it handles others' needs.
I tried your plugin out and it worked well, but I have no reason to switch. The one thing I can't do without is being able to quickly search through all of the files in my project. Is there any way to do this within Proj?