How to search from root of project using silver searcher in vim?

Question

I have silver searcher set up in vim and would like to search from the root of a project directory without having to explicitly passing in the file path.

For example, let's say I'm at /project_root/lvl1/lvl2.

I want to search for a word starting from /project without having to type :Ag word ../...

Is there a way to do so?

How do you know you've reached the root of a project directory? — melpomene, Jul 03 '19 at 19:15
Well CtrlP defines root of a project directory as a directory that contains `.git` folder. — doctopus, Jul 03 '19 at 20:44

Amadan · Answer 1 · 2019-07-04T12:29:25.177

Note that the original Ag (rking/ag.vim) is deprecated. The owner recommended moving back to Ack, but there is an active development in an Ag fork at albfan/ag.vim. Using this version of Ag, you can enable project discovery by the following setting (:help g:ag.working_path_mode):

let g:ag.working_path_mode='r'

You may need to prepend let g:ag={}. Also, note that running :Ag with this option will silently :cd you to the project directory.

How to search from root of project using silver searcher in vim?

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