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I set the following on my ~/.vimrc which sets the current directory to the location of the file on the buffer.
au BufEnter * silent! :lcd%:p:h
However, when I run the fzf command to search for a file, then the search starts on the current directory, althogh the file I like to get is often in other directories. So I want to set it to ~/ whenever I run fzf.
But I'm not sure if it is possible. Is it possible to set it in fzf?
The following info can be found in the official docs of fzf:
You can execute :FZF with an argument for the starting dir. So you can just run :FZF ~ instead of :FZF. If you open the fzf buffer from a mapping just change that mapping:
map <c-space> :FZF ~<cr>
(Unrelated to the question but related to the autocomand you mentioned: 'autochdir')
You can provide a default path to fzf if you configure it to use fd (or rigrep or ag) in your .bashrc.
Then calling fzf from vim will also use this path as a starting point.
My .bashrc has the following line so all searches being from my home directory:
export FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND="fd . $HOME"
(note that on Debian Buster, the command would be "fdfind . $HOME)
I found that this produced too many results, so I implemented a solution to have a subset of the directories in $HOME searched (see the FZF section here)
