Long wait when editing files in home directory about vim-gutentags HOT 2 CLOSED

Interesting, I can't think of anything that would result in such a slow lookup for the project root... you could add some more traces into autoload/gutentags.vim, inside gutentags#get_project_root, where it does the while loop. This way you would maybe see exactly what directory causes problems.

Maybe there's something to do with a loop of symbolic links? Or with a parent directory that requires admin privileges and so Windows times out because of UAC? Or the terminal condition to stop navigating to parent folders is somehow not valid under Cygwin? (on Windows and *nix, Vim's fnamemodify(path, ':h') basically returns the same thing you passed in if you reached the root)

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