Keep project specific stuff in a .project.vim file

Paul Harper

9 years ago

This script will search for .project.vim, ../.project.vim, ../../.project.vim etc until it finds one. If it finds one, it will source it.

This hasn't been modified to work on Windows, but shouldn't be hard to modify. Also I'm sure there are optimizations that could be made here, but it hasn't slowed me down at all.

function! s:findFileBackward(path, filename)
    let file = a:filename
    let path = a:path
    if !strlen(path)
        let path = '.'
    endif
    while !filereadable(file)
        if path ==# '/'
            return ''
        endif
        let path = system('cd '.shellescape(path.'/..').' && echo -n $PWD')
        let file = path.'/'.a:filename
    endwhile
    return file
endfunction

function! FindFileBackward(filename)
    " Try to resolve the file from the current buffer first
    let file = s:findFileBackward(expand('%:h'), a:filename)
    if !strlen(file)
        " Try to resolve the file from the cwd
        return s:findFileBackward(getcwd(), a:filename)
    endif
    return file
endfunction

let g:project_local_vimrc = FindFileBackward('.project.vim')
if filereadable(g:project_local_vimrc)
    execute 'source ' . g:project_local_vimrc
endif