Caching is not happening command-t

[dcDeba]

Every time I try to open command-t on a file, it starts searching for all the files making the vim unusable. How to cache the result and use the same cache in multiple files.?

[wincent]

Do you have 'autochdir' set, by any chance? (See :h 'autochdir'). That setting causes Vim to change directory every time you open a file, which causes Command-T to have to re-scan from the new "root" directory.

See also :h g:CommandTMaxCachedDirectories, which lets you choose how many directories get cached.

[dcDeba]

I checked if autochdir is set or not using the below command:
command--> :verbose set autochdir?
Output--> noautochdir

I have set g:CommandTMaxCachedDirectories to the following in .vimrc

let g:CommandTMaxCachedDirectories=0

[wincent]

Must be something else going on then. This is with the standard :CommandT finder, right?

Can you confirm that :pwd is stable and not changing?

There might be something unknown to me in your local environment that is causing Command-T to drop its cache; there isn't anything internal to the plug-in itself that would do that, other than the things I just said.

[dcDeba]

Yes, with standard :CommandT finder.

I have opened the same file twice and checked the output of :pwd and its same.

Is there any way to specify the cache path?

Also, what is the name of the cache file and in which directory is it created.

[wincent]

It's not a file; it's an in-memory cache — as in, if you quit Vim, the cache is gone.

[dcDeba]

Okay!
Is there any way I can debug the issue?

[wincent]

You could try disabling all other plugins and starting with an empty .vimrc; like I said above, there's nothing internal to Command-T that would cause it to rescan a cached directory.

[wincent]

Given the big rewrite for v6.0.x, I'm closing all older issues as there is unlikely to be anything significant happening on the 5-x-devel branch from here on¹. Feedback issue for 6.0.x is here:

• 🆕 Command-T 6.0.0 release — compendium issue #393

Footnotes

1. Patches and PRs would be welcome, but my personal efforts are going to be directed towards main. ↩