Use CursorHold to update the list of matching items

[urandom]

It would be an improvement if, when the ctrlp window appears, the updatetime is changed to something small, and the list of matching items is only updated when that autocommand is triggered.

That would speed things up quite a bit, when you know what you want to write

[kien]

I think I had this same idea when writing prompt.vim (which eventually evolved into ctrlp.vim). There was also a partial implementation as the now removed ctrlp_live_update option and the <c-^> mapping. I thought it was a little bit inconvenient to have to wait or hit something for the list to update.

But I see your point, so I'll definitely give this another try.

Thanks!

[kien]

Added. You can enable/disable it or set the delay time with this option:

let  g:ctrlp_lazy_update = 0

The default delay time is 250ms.