Play nicely with 'autochdir' about ferret HOT 3 CLOSED

Thanks for posting the issue @swalladge. I don't specifically recall any changes in ferret to relativize paths, although it's possible that I am just forgetting them; I thought it just dealt with the paths as returned by the underlying search tool (ag, rg etc).

I'd be open to accepting a PR to support 'autochdir', but it's not something I personally would work on because I consider that to be a bit of an anti-feature (it's caused problems in Command-T; I generally think you're better off building and using tools that assume you stay in the project root: it makes things a lot simpler). We'd just need to be careful to make sure that it worked with all the underlying tools, and in the different execution environments (Neovim, Vim 7, Vim 8 etc).

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Fair enough. Maybe I need to modify my workflow to remove the need for autochdir, since that messes up several plugins. Thanks.

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I think that would be a good idea, but that's just my opinion. If 'autochdir' were "wrong" then the setting wouldn't exist, so each person has to figure out what works best for them.

I'm going to close this because I am not going to actively work on it myself, but I'd still be open to accepting PRs if anybody cares to look into it.

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