My searches for files are often slow because because searched folders contains folders with large amounts of files that I generally do not want to search.
Examples of folders that I almost always want to ignore in searches (being a :NET developer):
.git - Git repository folder
node_modules - Downloaded node packages
packages - Downloaded .NET packages
I would like to see the addition of an exclude folders field to the Alt-F7 dialog, similar to "Find text" field (checkbox in front and with history).
Field should accept input like:
.git;node_modules;packages
Ignore list of directories when performing Alt-F7 searches
Moderators: white, Hacker, petermad, Stefan2
From the Help:
is that to any avail?All masks after the pipe character | will be treated as exclude masks.
To include/exclude certain directories in the search, wildcards can be used in include/exclude directory names, and the names must have a trailing backslash \
Examples:
*.htm? | _vti*\ finds all html files, except in subdirs starting with _vti
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Thanks, I was not aware of that operator (The pipe character), and it lets me do the searches much faster.
Example:
*.csproj | node_modules\ .*\ packages\ obj\ Deploy\
I'm not a fan of this syntax (too much information crammed into one input field) but I guess it will do the job.
Example:
*.csproj | node_modules\ .*\ packages\ obj\ Deploy\
I'm not a fan of this syntax (too much information crammed into one input field) but I guess it will do the job.
petermad wrote:From the Help:is that to any avail?All masks after the pipe character | will be treated as exclude masks.
To include/exclude certain directories in the search, wildcards can be used in include/exclude directory names, and the names must have a trailing backslash \
Examples:
*.htm? | _vti*\ finds all html files, except in subdirs starting with _vti