It would be convenient to be able to exclude dirs in the new find-in-files panel (the same way as excluding patterns works with a “-”). This is coming up where we have a dir structure like the following:
/root/liba
/root/libb
...
/root/libn
/root/thirdpartylibs/... # massive source tree hereAnd it would be nice if we could search in “/root,-/root/thirdpartylibs”, as opposed to “/root/liba,/root/libb,…,/root/libn”.
John
+1
I would like to exclude all stuff under “target” in my Java projects.
According to this topic Exclude files & directories from "Find in Files" it looks like that is should be possible to exclude directories (and it’s subdirectories). Couldn’t get it working though. “-target” doesn’t do the job…
I also noticed this wasn’t working (I wanted to exclude cache files in my project tmp directory).
It’s possible to exclude folders from search by excluding them from a project (http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/projects.html), but this isn’t ideal because really it’s a different feature.
It probably would be the best to optionally let users use a regex for selecting the subdirectories/files to search - afaik “Geany” offers this option and it works great.
+1; searching an entire project and excluding a set of dirs by pattern is invaluable…
I have tried the following from another post. It does not work for me.
is this correct? should we be able to exclude dirs in this way?
this does not do anything except search all files and all folders
For some of us this might be a solution: adding “folder_exclude_patterns” to the sublime-project file.
Example:
[code]
{
“folders”:
{
"path": "/projectdir/myproject",
"folder_exclude_patterns": "target", "cache", "log"]
}
]
}[/code]
These subdirectory’s are now completely ignored by Sublime.
Any chance on getting this -CVS functionality added to the find files and folder in ST2?
I’m using the folder_exclude_patterns for the moment and it’s ok, but it would still be nice to be able to exclude a dir when searching.
For instance I have a test dir and using *.*;-*test* or just -*test* still returns results from the test dir.
Actually scrap that, even with the exclude_folder it returns matches from those dirs.
The dirs aren’t shown in the sidebar, but it’s still getting hits from those files.
This is also an issue here
When working on big Django project, model migrations files generated by South are numerous and big, and completely pollute search results.
RM
Since we’re about it, why not also completing the picture and adding “include_patterns”?
See sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/5 … ct-config/
Find in Files has always supported include pattens, and as of nightly 2191, dirs can be excluded
The addition of exclude dirs from find and replace is very welcome and appreciated.
The problem presented in this thread is a little bit different. As suggested by ludder a preference in projects to control “folder_exclude_patterns” would be useful.
Whenever I search inside a project I get results from “.git” folders and other folders that I wish to exclude always from search results.
Writing -.git will probably work but is not that practical.
Regards
folder_exclude_patterns already exists for projects: sublimetext.com/docs/2/projects.html
Yes, sorry.
I was referring to the possibility to actually show a folder in sidebar but exclude it from Find and Replace.
My opinion is that showing a folder in sidebar and exclude it from Find and Replace are two different unrelated things.
A slightly confusing thing is that the exclude filter for a directory has to be written like this:
-/dirtoexclude/
instead of a simpler
-dirtoexclude
Or maybe I’m just not used to how ST2 handles filters yet (and haven’t found proper documentation on it).
Thanks folks. “folder_exclude_patterns” was all I needed for my purposes.
Good luck with the further feature requests.
In case anyone else comes here looking for how to exclude all subdirectories (ie. subfolders), as I just did, here’s what I found works:
-<project root directory name, not path>/*/*If the folder is named ‘scripts’, it’d be: -scripts/*/*
If there are two root folders foo and bar, and you only want to search through their files, but not the folders they contain, you’d use
-foo/*/*,-bar/*/*I also tried -(foo|bar)// but it didn’t work. Anyone know if there’s a shorter syntax that what I’ve got here?