How to prevent ctrlp from indexing $HOME

[fingermark]

I am not sure where to go with this question, but if I open up vim in $HOME and hit ctrl-p (because I thought i was in a different working directory) it will take forever to index and pretty much hang. I want to be able to tell ctrl-p to either not run when the working directory is $HOME or to ignore $HOME (but still allow for $HOME/projects/...). What's the best way to handle this?

[bronson]

Hi, I had a similar problem. If i'm in a project, do a quick :e of ~/.vimrc, and then hit ctrl-p, blammo. Everything locks up for 30 seconds.

Removing 'a' from g:ctrlp_working_path_mode fixed it for me: https://github.com/bronson/dotfiles/commit/4126863544da4cf20c016f728ed3586dda617f44

This doesn't help when you start vim in your homedir, alas. I just remember not to do that...

[aandrieiev]

Quite a primitive workaround:

nnoremap <LEADER>f :call RunCtrlP()<CR>

fun! RunCtrlP()
  lcd %:p:h
  if (getcwd() == $HOME)
    echo "Can't run in \$HOME"
    return
  endif
  CtrlP
endfunc

Note that I'm changing the working directory to that containing the current file. It fits my workflow but may not necessarily fit yours.

[rlue]

I use ag as my ctrlp user command

if executable('ag')
  let g:ctrlp_user_command = 'ag %s --nocolor -g ""'
endif

and then any top-level directories in my home that don't usually contain text files go in my .agignore.

[eduardoarandah]

Same problem, how to cancel indexing?

I just wanted to edit some quick file and then... Ctrl+P and BUM! only exit is force closing VIM

[dohsimpson]

Inspired by @aandrieiev 's answer. This will also work:

  let g:ctrlp_user_command = '[ $PWD == $HOME ] && echo "In HOME Directory" || ag %s ""'

You can replace ag %s "" with any file listing command to run, e.g. with find: find %s.

[ravexina]

I can get out of indexing easily by pressing Ctrl+C one or two times.