On 2019-12-19, skywind3000 wrote: > Please provide a standard way to locate project root directory.
This is an attractive idea, but there is no standard way to locate a project root directory. I have a plugin that attempts to do this. It has evolved over many years and contains several different methods for identifying project root directories. Each company I have worked for has had different ideas of how project directories should be structured and where they should be put. For company, open-source and personal projects, some have VCS files in the project root and some don't. For a project using git submodules, is a submodule a project or does the top-level directory contain the project? I want to be able to identify a project even if it is not my own directory and the owner doesn't use vim, so putting a file such as .vim_project in the root directory is out. Also, I really don't want dot files cluttering every directory that I consider a project. (My own plugin uses heuristics and a database of exceptions that resides under ~/.vim.) We can't impose a standard on the world's projects and personal requirements and preferences vary a lot, so I think this problem is best solved by using plugins, not by adding something to the Vim executable. Regards, Gary -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/20191219212445.GA13464%40phoenix.
