Editing file with vim without typing path (similar to autojump) - linux

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

Ah! I found the command with which. Here is the magical script. I can't determine where I got it.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
[ "$vim" ] || vim=vim
[ $viminfo ] || viminfo=~/.viminfo
usage="$(basename $0) [-a] [-l] [-[0-9]] [--debug] [--help] [regexes]"
[ $1 ] || list=1
fnd=()
for x; do case $x in
-a) deleted=1;;
-l) list=1;;
-[1-9]) edit=${x:1}; shift;;
--help) echo $usage; exit;;
--debug) vim=echo;;
--) shift; fnd+=("$#"); break;;
*) fnd+=("$x");;
esac; shift; done
set -- "${fnd[#]}"
[ -f "$1" ] && {
$vim "$1"
exit
}
while IFS=" " read line; do
[ "${line:0:1}" = ">" ] || continue
fl=${line:2}
[ -f "${fl/\~/$HOME/}" -o "$deleted" ] || continue
match=1
for x; do
[[ "$fl" =~ $x ]] || match=
done
[ "$match" ] || continue
i=$((i+1))
files[$i]="$fl"
done < "$viminfo"
if [ "$edit" ]; then
resp=${files[$edit]}
elif [ "$i" = 1 -o "$list" = "" ]; then
resp=${files[1]}
elif [ "$i" ]; then
while [ $i -gt 0 ]; do
echo -e "$i\t${files[$i]}"
i=$((i-1))
done
read -p '> ' CHOICE
resp=${files[$CHOICE]}
fi
[ "$resp" ] || exit
$vim "${resp/\~/$HOME}"