I had this same issue for the longest time. A real productivity kill for sure.
In my case it turned out to be lines in my .agignore file causing the behavior. I’m still unclear why, but I needed to change lines referencing nested directories to include a leading forward slash. e.g., app/assets/fonts to /app/assets/fonts.
I don’t see an .agignore file in your dotfiles, so that may not be it. If nothing else, hopefully this will get you looking in the right direction.
Hey @notrab I was having problems with CtrlP as well and I installed fzf … which is honestly the best fuzzy finder on earth… its a lot simpler to install than command-t and works better than CtrlP I would highly recommend it!