Vim/Neovim — Managing Multiple Project Settings

Managing project-specific settings for Vim/Neovim projects.

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Overview

I talked about managing multiple databases and projects in my previous articles. On some occasions, you may have a need to manage multiple projects with configurations only specific to the projects.

In this article, let’s explore the available options we have in Vim/Neovim. I will start with the simplest solution and then move on to explore plugins we can use.

Vim/Neovim — Managing Databases

Vim/Neovim — Managing Multiple Projects

exrc, vimrc, nvimrc

If you set the exrc option in your .vimrc or init.vim file, Vim/Neovim will execute .exrc (for both Vim/Neovim), .vimrc (Vim), .nvimrc (Neovim) found in the current directory when Vim/Neovim is started.

set exrc