Search your spells, tracking, profession recipes, bag items and game windows by name, and use them from the keyboard. Press Alt+Space, type a few letters, press Enter.

Requirements

A World of Warcraft 1.12.1 (build 5875) client (## Interface: 11200).
VimWowSettings, the options window VimFinder keeps its key in. Install it beside VimFinder (below).
No DLL. VimFinder needs neither ClassicAPI.dll nor VimWowNative.dll. It was tested on a 1.12.1 client both with and without ClassicAPI.dll in dlls.txt. With ClassicAPI it finds more (see With ClassicAPI).

Install

With Git, from your game folder:

cd Interface/AddOns
git clone https://octowow.st/git/Lupo/VimFinder.git
git clone https://octowow.st/git/Lupo/VimWowSettings.git

To update later, run git pull in each of the two folders.

Without Git, download the ZIP of VimFinder and of VimWowSettings, unzip both into Interface/AddOns/, and rename the folders to exactly VimFinder and VimWowSettings.

At character select, under AddOns, make sure both are ticked.

Use counts are saved per account in VimFinderDB.

Use

Key	Does
Alt+Space	Opens the finder (change it in the options, below)
Type	Narrows the list. Letters match in order, so `ql` finds Toggle Quest Log; letters found together rank first
Tab / Shift+Tab	Next / previous result
Ctrl+J / Ctrl+K	Next / previous result (hold Ctrl, then press J or K)
Enter	Uses the chosen result
Esc	Closes the finder

With nothing typed, the results you use most come first; while you type, they win ties. Each result shows its icon, its name and what Enter does. A result in white can be used; one in grey is only shown, with its tooltip beside the finder.

In combat the finder turns partly see-through; it still opens windows and casts spells, but leaves bag items, trade skills and crafts until the fight is over.

What it finds

Windows

Every window the game's key bindings open (quest log, spellbook, talents, character, reputation, skills, social, world map and the rest), by the game's own names. Enter opens it, or closes it when it is open, and closes the finder.

Spells

Your spells and your pet's. Enter casts a spell that needs no target: professions (Cooking, First Aid, Fishing and so on), Disenchant (then click the item), summons and Basic Campfire; with ClassicAPI, helpful spells on yourself too. Other spells are shown in grey with their rank. A search finds everything that matches, here a bag item, three spells and a window:

Bag items

Everything in your bags, with the bag and slot it is in. Enter opens your bags so you can find the item.

Recipes

Every recipe your professions know, with the icon of the item it makes. Enter opens the profession's window and selects the recipe there; it never crafts. Without ClassicAPI the finder lists the recipes of the profession window that is open.

Tracking

With ClassicAPI, your tracking spells (Find Herbs, Find Minerals...), and whether each one is on. Enter turns it on or off.

Change the key

Press Esc, click VimWow Options (the options window VimFinder shares with the other Vim mods), and open the Finder tab at the bottom. Its Bindings page has Open the finder:

Click the key to set a new one, or Set key 2 for a second key.
Default goes back to Alt+Space. Off binds no key.

Esc > Key Bindings lists Open the finder under VimFinder too. Without ClassicAPI the key you set on the Finder tab is saved there: VimFinder only takes a key nothing else is bound to, and gives a key back when you change it on the Finder tab. With ClassicAPI the key stays out of your game key bindings, and a key saved there by a start without ClassicAPI is given back.

With ClassicAPI

ClassicAPI.dll is optional. With it the finder:

lists the recipes of every profession, their windows closed;
lists your tracking spells and turns them on or off;
casts helpful spells on yourself;
keeps its key apart from your game key bindings.

Even better with VimBag and VimWow

VimFinder works alone. Two other mods of the same family take it further; each is optional and installs the same way.

VimBag, one bag for all your bags, run from the keyboard: Enter on a bag item opens VimBag with that item selected, and VimBag's search matches the way the finder does.

VimWow, keyboard control of the game's windows: a window the finder opens gets VimWow's keyboard focus, so you go on in it by keyboard. Enter on a recipe of the open profession window selects it there, and VimWow puts a key beside every row.

Warning: VimWow is far more than a boost for the finder. It moves the whole game to the keyboard. It takes over many of your keys, movement, targeting and interaction among them, and changes how you use every window. It also needs ClassicAPI.dll. Install it only if you want that overhaul; VimFinder and VimBag do not need it.

All three together: a profession window, VimBag and the finder, which finds the recipes and the bag items in one search, with VimWow's key list at the top right.