I know how to ignore most files in VS Code as follows:
"files.exclude": {
"**/*.pdf": true,
"**/*.out": true,
"**/*.exe": true,
"**/Music": true
},
But I also want to ignore files with no extension or suffix, for example the filename is smartPoint (which is generated after I run file smartPoint.cpp in VScode). Is there any way I can ignore this kind of Unix file on a Mac?
There's an alternate way that I got some headway with, but it doesn't work as well as I'd like. For what it's worth, here it is:
Essentially, set "explorer.excludeGitIgnore": true, in settings.json and then use gitignore binary files that have no extension.
(in .gitignore):
*
!*/
!*.*
This would only work in the first place though if you are okay with gitignoring these.
Unfortunately, for reasons I don't understand, VS Code's interpretation of the ignore file fails to unignore all directories, which... renders this approach pretty much unworkable. But I thought I'd share it anyway. Maybe that behaviour of VS Code is a bug and maybe it'll get fixed someday.
Since you have generated files with the same basename I was hoping that some form of hiding derived files would work. Example for typescript/javascript:
"files.exclude": {
**/*.js: { "when": "$(basename).ts" }
}
But what to put in the key **/.js? I tried
"**/*": { "when": "$(basename).cpp } // doesn't work
"**/$(basename)": { "when": "$(basename).ts" } // doesn't work
"**/[^.]*": { "when": "$(basename).ts" } // doesn't work
"**/*[^.]*": { "when": "$(basename).ts" } // doesn't work
"**/*[^.]{1,10}": { "when": "$(basename).ts" } // doesn't work
I really thought some version of the last would work - excluding files with no extension - but no.
WARNING: dirty hack follows. As a lark I tried
"**/[^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.]": {"when": "$(basename).cpp"},
since smartPoint has 10 characters. That works !! But not for new - 3 characters. But you can have both:
"**/[^.][^.][^.]": {"when": "$(basename).cpp"}, // works on 3 character file names
"**/[^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.]": {"when": "$(basename).cpp"}, // works on 10
so yes, unless someone comes up with a better solution, you could include all the versions you need for the number of characters (for 1...10, etc.) you might have.
Ugly, but simple.
