Searching with command-T

Question

When I search some file with command-T it often failes to find it because I'm not in the right directory, so I have to change the directory.

Is it possible to set that command-T will search first in the directories that are bookmarked in Nerdtree or somewhere else?

I could change the directory to / but this search very large scope of files. When I change the dir to my home directory and I'm looking for something ordinary like .bashrc I will find rather many files that are located under .wine directory.

In 99 % of time I need to search files in project directories that I actively work with. Can I set these directories in some preferences?

Answer 1

According to the documentation you can exclude directories from your search:

                                            *command-t-wildignore*
  |'wildignore'|                                 string (default: '')

   Vim's |'wildignore'| setting is used to determine which files should be
  excluded from listings. This is a comma-separated list of glob patterns.
  It defaults to the empty string, but common settings include "*.o,*.obj"
  (to exclude object files) or ".git,.svn" (to exclude SCM metadata
  directories). For example:

     :set wildignore+=*.o,*.obj,.git

   A pattern such as "vendor/rails/**" would exclude all files and
  subdirectories inside the "vendor/rails" directory (relative to
  directory Command-T starts in).    

So if you wanted to exclude a backup dir, you would write:

set wildignore+=project/backup

in your .vimrc

In addition, to ignore dotfiles/dotdirs you can look into these options:

g:CommandTNeverShowDotFiles
g:CommandTScanDotDirectories
g:CommandTMaxDepth

These allow you to:
- ignore dotfiles completely;
- stop searching recursively in dotdirs;
- specify at what depth should Command-T stop scanning.

I found this information in the author's git, but you can probably see this document by issuing in vim:

:help Command-T

(or a similar name)

I did not see any reference to preferences or bookmarks in the plugin.
However if you start vim by opening a file in said project directory you might want to add this line to your .vimrc:

    set autochdir

This option will set on startup your directory to the current file's directory.

Answer 2

You could try Ctrl-P. I had the same problems as you do and making the change solved them.

I also ignore some folders (in .vimrc):

let g:ctrlp_custom_ignore = {
\ 'dir':  '\.git$\|\.hg$\|\.svn$',
\ 'file': '\.exe$\|\.so$\|\.dll$' }