Helm/Projectile outside a project

Question

I use the packages Helm and helm-projectile for navigating in Emacs. I ran into problems, when I use projectile-helm inside Helm, and I'm able to reproduce this with a empty Emacs init file. The configuration to reproduce this:

;; Get MELPA
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("melpa-stable" . "http://melpa-stable.milkbox.net/packages/") t)

;; Add Use-package to the list
(setq package-list
    '(use-package))

;; Install use-package
; activate all the packages
(package-initialize)

(use-package projectile
  :ensure t
  :diminish projectile-mode
  :config
  (projectile-global-mode) 

(use-package helm-projectile
  :ensure t
  :config
  (projectile-global-mode) 
  (helm-projectile-on))

(use-package helm
  :ensure t
  :commands helm-for-files
  :diminish helm-mode
  :config
  (helm-mode 1)
  (setq helm-for-files-preferred-list '(helm-source-recentf
                                        helm-source-projectile-files-list
                                        helm-source-projectile-recentf-list))

What will the problem be?

The directory foo contains two files: foo.txt and .git.

The directory bar contains one files: bar.txt.

When you're opening a file in directory foo:

foo/foo.txt

Then call M-x helm-find-files, the Helm window will show up, because it's a project file (because of the .git init file, so it can find files), so the source projectile-files-list will deliver the files.

But when you opening bar.txt in directory bar, then call M-x helm-find-files, it will not show up because it's probably still waiting on input from helm-source-projectile-files-list, in buffers *warnings*, or in buffer errors I can't find anything. I understand where this problem might come, but how could I tell Emacs, to not use helm-source-projectile-files-list when the buffer is currently not in a project (.git)?

Answer 1

I had this same problem a while ago.

Whenever files or candidate items don't appear right (in this case bar.txt) away I noticed that searching for bar.txt in the helm buffer would make it appear.

Try this.

(setq helm-candidate-number-limit 10000)