wildignore in macvim

  1. Nick Carter

    So I've tried setting this to both a quote-delimited string and without delimiters, but it doesn't seem to be excluding the directory I've specified.

    In this case I'm running :set wildignore+=out/**

    This should remove all files from the out directory (relative to the cwd at the moment) correct? I still see matches under out after running this.

  2. Nick Carter

    Seems I needed to add this to an autocommand, which I've done. I do see out/ results, but they're further down the list which is good enough for now.

  3. Greg Hurrell

    Yep, :set wildignore+=out/** should definitely work.

    Can you post the contents of your ~/.vimrc and also the output of :set wildignore?

  4. Nick Carter

    Contents follow. This is from my work machine, which is slightly different from the one at home and which I haven't gotten CommandT working on yet: 

    color vilight
set ic  
set hls is
set si
set foldmethod=indent
set foldnestmax=10 
set nofoldenable  
set foldlevel=1  
set nu
set backspace=indent,eol,start
set noro
set nowrap
set tabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set autoindent
set wildignore+=out/**

filetype plugin on


syntax on

set guifont=Lucida_Console:h14:cANSI
set guioptions=""

    "this wildignore should also affect :vim searches is my understanding, and they are still coming back with results from out/

  5. Greg Hurrell

    Not sure if 'wildignore' affects :vim searches or not. Perhaps it does.

    In any case, You can test the effect of your 'wildignore' setting by calling the expand() function.

    For example, just say your 'wildignore' contains 'foo' and you're in a directory with files "foo" and "bar":

    • :echo expand("foo") will echo nothing at all, because the "foo" file in the current directory is filtered out by the 'wildignore' setting
    • :echo expand("bar") will echo "bar", because "bar" is not filtered out
    • :echo expand("baz") will echo "baz", because even though "baz" doesn't exist in the current directory, neither does it get filtered out

    So, if your settings are correct, then :echo expand("out/foo/bar") should echo nothing at all.

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