ALESymbolSearch is searching outside of working directory

[patrickReiis]

The Deno guide says ALE supports Deno via the Deno language server out of the box and in many uses cases doesn't require additional configuration

When I run :ALESymbolSearch <word>, instead of looking in my working directory, it looks in my entire operating system.

In this line of ALE docs: https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale/blob/master/doc/ale-typescript.txt#L81

It says that ALE tries finding a tsconfig.json file, however, deno has its own file called deno.json, so I think it doesn't work because I doesn't find this deno.json since it is trying to find a non existing file called tsconfig.json

deno.json: https://docs.deno.com/runtime/fundamentals/configuration/

Aside from this problem ALE is good, I need help please. It's all updated to latest. Both nvim and ALE.

[patrickReiis]

Sorry to bother, could you help me sir?
@motato1

You already helped me once. You saved my life.

[motato1]

I didn't try this, but my approach would be to add a buffer-local autocmd for the typescript Filetype event and then manually set the project root by using vim.fs.root(0, 'deno.json') (NeoVim only).

[hsanson]

ALE does look for a deno.json file to determine the project root:

• https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale/blob/master/autoload/ale/handlers/deno.vim#L32

You can try checking what root is being detected by running this funcion inside vim:

:echo ale#handlers#deno#GetProjectRoot(0)

You can also force the project root using g:ale_deno_lsp_project_root:

:h g:ale_deno_lsp_project_root