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option cdpath

Vim Reference

:help 'cdpath'

Short Description

List of directories to be searched for change directory commands.

Example

Let's assume you have a folder where you keep all your projects, and you want to change directory from anywhere to any of your project. For this we can make use of the 'cdpath' option that works just like the Bash $CDPATH. Means we can provide a list of directories in which Vim will search for the given directory name to which you want to change.

Let's assume we have the following project directories ...

/home/username/projects/prj1
/home/username/projects/prj2
/home/username/projects/prj3

We can set in our .vimrc ...

set cdpath=,,/home/username/projects

... and now you can change from any location to any of your projects just with the :cd command and the project directory name ...

:cd prj2

Did you know that there is a DirChanged autocommand event and that Vim can load saved sessions? Just saying. 😜

Currently path completion from cdpath is not possible. See issue.