NeoRoot.lua VS vim-rooter

Firstly, I respect your sharing here, but I still discourage people(especially newcomers) from using this kind of plugin/script to auto-changing "current directory". (So yes, I myself discourage people from using my own root plugin NeoRoot.lua anymore, and I've decided to execute my plan to abandon it recently.)

You did it, I've done it: forgetting to give a link ^^ Here it is NeoRoot.lua

Try my lightweight plugin specifically created for handling such an issue by changing your cwd automatically: https://github.com/nyngwang/NeoRoot.lua

Hi, this is the first plugin I wrote for my own need. It works very well so far, so I want to share it with you: Editing NeoRoot.lua/README.md at main · nyngwang/NeoRoot.lua (github.com). Here is the intro:

This or users may have monorepo style projects and vim-rooter to auto-set cwd to specific directories within the project based on certain file markers (e.g. makefile, package.json, ...etc), to accomplish something like :e dir1/file.go | make would run make and then :e dir2/file2.ts | make would run npm.

maybe you are already doing this and you want to access files outside the project directory but if not I use vim-rooter to set the root dir of the project automatically when I open vim

The airblade/vim-rooter plugin is an essential part of my Neovim workflow. It automatically changes current directory (:h current-directory) for every buffer to a more natural one (like to path of its Git repository). For me this has the following benefits:

It depends where you open vim. If you are in home and open a file (even in sub directories) like nvim directory/file.txt, uour vim's current working directory (aka cwd) will be home. A way to make this automatic I think is the built in autocd (or something like that) and plugins like vim-rooter.

An alternative would be using a plugin like vim-rooter : https://github.com/airblade/vim-rooter

I just use rooter and avoid thinking about it...

There's vim-rooter, which is great.

No, it doesn't change current directory. For that, use sessions or airblade/vim-rooter (or wait around couple of months for planned 'mini.root' :) ). And, of course, you can create custom items which will change current directory.