Add finding files with vim

README.md

@@ -35,3 +35,4 @@ Table of Contents:
 ### Security
 
 ### Vim
+* [Finding files](vim/finding-files.md)

vim/finding-files.md

+Finding files
+=============
+
+Anyone who has worked with `java` knows the pain of having to go through several
+directories in order to find a file. If you are using an IDE like Eclipse, it'd
+become a lot easier, but there are major problems when using a regular text editor
+like vim. The fact that we can just specify a file name which vim finds and opens
+for editing is extremely useful in such cases.
+
+### Opening a file from the command line
+This is probably the least convenient one. We have to rely on using the bash `find`
+utility since vim does not seem to explicitly have a command that would do it for
+us:
+```
+vim $(find -name FILE_NAME)
+```
+
+### Opening a file from within vim
+In the current window:
+```
+:find FILE_NAME
+```
+In a new tab:
+```
+:tabfind FILE_NAME
+```
+The :tabfind command uses Vim's 'path' option to determine which directories should
+be searched when opening the specified file. For example, the following tells Vim
+to look in the directory containing the current file (.), then the current directory
+(empty text between two commas), then each directory under the current directory
+('\*\*'). 
+```
+:set path=.,,**
+```