[pfranz]

You can hold down CTRL and use j/k to move up/down (so you don't have to use the arrow keys). It can be slow on very large directories.

I switched to CtrlP last week because I switched OSes at work and didn't want to recompile vim and Cmd+t. In the past CtrlP was significantly slower, but I found a few new features that actually makes it faster than Cmd+t for me; it automatically navigates up looking for a .git or .svn to search from instead of cwd, and you can set up caching (persistent between sessions) and max num of files to scan--I believe you can set a timeout, too. I also setup a filter so my build folder and docs won't show up.

Since finding Cmd+t, it's been the fastest way to navigate to files in a project (especially when they're not in the same directory).