Making Unite.vim use the project root directory

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 01:18:00 +0000

I’ve been using vim for quite a while now - I think it’s about 3 years . Over the short 3 year journey, I’ve built up a pretty massive vimrc file which I add & tweak almost every day. Over the past week I decided to make the switch over to Unite.vim, but coming from ctrlp, I wasn’t satisfied with the default behaviour.

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There are plenty of ctrlp snippets out there which approximate ctrlp’s behaviour, but one thing they don’t focus on is ctrlp’s ability to find your project root and search within its context. For me, this functionality was what took ctrlp from an amazing vim plugin, to something that made massive improvements to the speed of navigation, and ultimately, my productivity.

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Making Unite.vim use the project root directory

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