Re: Added find.exclude

On 16/07/2022 07:27, 'Neil Hodgson' via scite-interest wrote:
> As I was annoyed by .bak and .orig files showing in “Find in Files”,
> I added a find.exclude property to filter out files and directories
> that match a set of patterns. This is most commonly needed when the
> Files item in the dialog is empty or otherwise over-broad.
>

Nice addition. Thanks.

> For example: find.exclude=*.bak *.orig debug release This doesn’t
> search in any *.bak or *.orig files or search inside the debug or
> release directories where there may be object files or other build
> artifacts.
>

Wouldn't it be better to discriminate directories by adding a final 
slash/backslash?

e.g. "debug/"

Otherwise it would be impossible to avoid searching in files that have 
no extensions. E.g. how would one avoid searching inside a file simply 
named "makefile" or "README"?

> As well as avoiding extra results, this can improve performance by
> excluding binary files based on name rather than reading them.
>

Moreover, how complex is the supported pattern syntax? Is it just a 
shell glob or does it support regular expressions (e.g. like the 
search/replace dialog)?

> Changes available from the repository hg clone
> http://hg.code.sf.net/p/scintilla/scite
> <http://hg.code.sf.net/p/scintilla/scite> or from
> https://www.scintilla.org/scite.zip
> <https://www.scintilla.org/scite.zip>  Source
> https://www.scintilla.org/wscite.zip
> <https://www.scintilla.org/wscite.zip> Windows executable (64-bit)
>
> Neil
>

Cheers!

-- Lorenzo

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