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I'm using the :find command as my "fuzzy file searcher" in Vim. My setup:
set path=,,**
nnoremap <leader>f :find *
However, I'm having trouble ignoring folders. Huge folders that contain dependencies, like node_modules, slow down the search a lot and of course pollute the results with things I don't want.
I've tried the following, with no luck:
set wildignore+=node_modules/*
set wildignore+=node_modules/**
set wildignore+=node_modules/**/*
What do I need to do? Thanks
The following enables fuzzy file search (i.e :find script.js) through every file in your project root while excluding the node_modules dir and its contents.
set path+=**
set wildignore+=**/node_modules/**
Tested on:
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Sep 11 2017 13:57:34) MacOS X (unix) version (Compiled by Homebrew)
node_modules directory during tab-completion, but doesn't prevent :find from searching in there, resulting in a slower :find