let g:rooter_change_directory_for_non_project_files = 'current' doesn't work when you have a package.json at ~

[Lazerbeak12345]

For some reason this has recently been behaving (seemingly) identical to the 'home' value in non-project files.

Neovim version: NVIM v0.7.0-dev+890-g574a58220

Simplest nvim/init.vim: (I didn't actually test this example, but I took out things I knew would effect it, so this should recreate it)

call plug#begin()
Plug 'airblade/vim-rooter'
call plug#end()
let g:rooter_change_directory_for_non_project_files = 'current'

to recreate

Opening a .git project still works as expected (the directory of that project is printed, and running :cd confirms.)

Open a folder that rooter would not call a project. Your home directory will be printed, and the output of :cd will also agree that it's in your home directory.

[airblade]

I can't reproduce this.

Perhaps your home directory is a "root"? I.e. does your home folder contain any of these?

.git, _darcs, .hg, .bzr, .svn, Makefile

If not, I can only suggest adding a few echom statements to the s:rootless() function to figure out what is going on.

[Lazerbeak12345]

Ok so I figured it out.

I had a package.json in my home directory. This happens all the time when someone does npm i <package name> outside of a project, as this installs the package at a user-level scope. This is intentional behavior of npm, and very frequently used in guides for popular JavaScript libraries.

I'll leave this issue open in case you want to add a special-case for this, a change to the default settings, and/or something in the readme.

[airblade]

Good to hear you solved the problem.

The most recent commit (0415be8) added package.json to the README, after the previous commit introduced it (see #123).

In retrospect adding package.json as a default pattern caused more trouble than I expected (I rarely use npm so didn't have a view on it either way). However now it's there I don't want to remove it unless it becomes a big problem – it's annoying when there's churn in the defaults.