How to run/call CtrlP first time in the background - VIM

Question

When calling CtrlP for the first time it cause quite a delay to build the cache. Is there a way to run it in the background so I can continue doing stuff in vim

Answer 1

If you need to speed up indexing of CtrlP, you can use ag to grep files, exclude some folders and files from indexing, and set cache location.

To do that, put these lines in your .vimrc:

let g:ctrlp_cache_dir = $HOME . '/.cache/ctrlp'
let g:ctrlp_user_command = 'ag %s -i --nocolor --nogroup --hidden
  \ --ignore .git
  \ --ignore .svn
  \ --ignore .hg
  \ --ignore .DS_Store
  \ --ignore "**/*.pyc"
  \ -g ""'