Ctrl-P excludes folders

[MattNguyen]

When I run ctrl-p in my Rails projects, ctrl-p completely ignores my apps and specs folder. I've cleared my cache, but to no avail. Not sure what other information I should provide to you, so please point me in the right direction.

[d11wtq]

Does your project use multiple git repositories nested inside each other? Are apps and spec in a different git repo, higher up the directory hierarchy to wherever you opened vim?

[kien]

You probably hit the max_files limit which is set to 10000 files. Try increasing it with the g:ctrlp_max_files option.

[MattNguyen]

@kien, you nailed it. Thanks a lot. Closing the issue.

So if you hit the max_files limit, what determines the files that will be included/excluded?

[kien]

There's no other condition. So naturally files that are in deeper directories have higher chance of being excluded.

[MattNguyen]

So I started running into this problem again and I figured out that the problem was due to ctrlp's ignore settings. I ended up putting the following in my .vimrc:

" Sane Ignore For ctrlp
let g:ctrlp_custom_ignore = {
  \ 'dir':  '\.git$\|\.hg$\|\.svn$\|\.yardoc\|public\/images\|public\/system\|data\|log\|tmp$',
  \ 'file': '\.exe$\|\.so$\|\.dat$'
  \ }

Doing so greatly improved the speed of ctrlp and the availability of files to search.

This was at the advice of an HN Post.

[rizzatti]

You might enjoy searching for "git ls-files" inside :help ctrlp. It can use only the files known by git, hg, ...
g:ctrlp_user_command would be the option I think.

[Supernats]

@rizzatti I should have read that section long ago. Such a wonderful tip. Thanks!

[savroff]

@rizzatti you just saved my ass 👍