I've tried this but it doesn't seem to work:
{
// index_exclude_patterns indicate which files won't be indexed.
"index_exclude_patterns": ["tmp/*", "*.cache", "*.log"],
}
Perhaps I need to reindex? But I don't know how to do that...
Your issue is that the index is used to collect symbols for Goto Definition and has no effect on the list of files that are presented to you when you use Goto Anything. So adding those folders to the list of files to exclude in indexing doesn't stop you from seeing them in the file list.
Goto Anything offers you all of the files that are currently contained in your project (if you're using one) or all open folders, excluding any files that it considers to be binary, so in order to stop files from appearing in the Goto Anything panel you need to either have them removed from the project or considered to be binary.
The folder_exclude_patterns and file_exclude_patterns settings allow you to indicate what folder and file patterns respectively should not be considered part of the project. Extending those settings would remove the files from the sidebar and thus from Goto Anything.
If you want to be able to still see the files in the sidebar but not be offered the ability to jump to them with Goto Anything, you can modify the binary_file_patterns setting. That tells Sublime what files are considered to be binary, which will stop it from showing them in the Goto Anything panel or searching them via Find in Files but will still show them in the sidebar for you to manually open.
folder_exclude_patterns and file_exclude_patterns can be used in your sublime-project file (if you're using one) so that they can be set on a project by project basis. binary_file_patterns only works as a global setting, however.
Either way, you probably want to base your custom settings on the defaults or you may accidentally have files appear in your project that are currently being hidden.
Related
I have a directory named project, and I navigated to Project > Add Folder to Project... in order to see the directory tree in my left sidebar. I noticed that doing this creates a file called index.sublime-project with the following content:
{
"folders":
[
{
"path": "."
}
]
}
I also noticed that there is another file in my directory called index.sublime-workspace, although this one does not appear in the tree view on the left sidebar of Sublime. It is only visible through windows explorer when I navigated to the Project directory.
What is the purpose of these files? Can I prevent them from being created every time I add folder to project?
Adding directories to the window using Project > Add Folder to Project is indeed one of the ways to open a folder (the others being to drag and drop a folder onto the window and File > Open Folder).
However, doing so do not create those files. To create them, you would need to use the Project > Save Project menu item. So you may have accidentally done that without realizing it. In theory a plugin could also create those files for you, though that seems unlikely (anything is possible though).
In any case, assuming you don't want them it's entirely safe to remove them.
A sublime-project file is a file that allows you to open folders in the side bar and then do things like apply settings that apply only to files in that window, alter what files and folders appear, and so on.
A sublime-workspace file is a localized session information for a particular window. Usually, they associated with a sublime-project file but they don't have to be. They store the state of the window, open files, etc so that you can close a window and then recall it later with the same state.
Here is my example, where I could have some input to filter directory subfolders.
The direct answer to the question is that this is not possible; the list of files and folders in the side bar is controlled by what folders you add and the settings that you include/exclude files and folders from within those folders. In theory you could try to modify the settings to change what appears in the side bar, but every time those settings change the file catalog needs to be rebuilt, which is something that can take some time (particularly in something with a large node_modules folder). It also causes all of the folders in the side bar to fold up.
The expected workflow is more designed around working with files than with working with groups of folders and that workflow centers around the Goto Anything panel. Choosing Goto > Goto Anything in the menu will open a panel showing you a list of every file that is currently contained in the side bar (except binary files).
The panel can filter text via fuzzy matching using as many search terms as you want (in any order you want) and will move the most likely matches closer to the top of the list. It also learns over time what files you pick when you use certain filters.
For your use case here you can open the panel and use a filter like node_modules or nmod/ to filter to files in the node_modules/ directory, acorn/ to see only files that exist in folders that match acorn, or a combination. You can also include fragments of filenames like lodash/ indjs to bring the index.js of the `lodash/ package to the top of the list.
The best way to get a feel for how this works is to play with it a little bit. Note also that the context menu in open files has a Reveal in side bar command that will focus the side bar on that file, which can be a handy way to see the other siblings of files you have open.
I save several projects in a same folder by manual click Project -> Save Project As...
and I used to use cmd + ctrl + p to open Switch Projectlist to switch between projects
and everything's works fine.
but today, I accidentally remove my Switch Project list in by click Project -> Open Recent -> Clear Items, so my Switch Project list is empty now...
I know I could add them back through reopen ALL my projects. due to the number of projects is pretty a lot, that will be kind of annoying to add them back one by one.
I wanna know if there's a smarter way to do that for me.
maybe import all my *.sublime-project files from folder or something.
thanks
Short of manually opening every project, I don't think there is any way to do something like this directly. There isn't a command or plugin endpoint that I'm aware of that lets you open a project by name or filename, so it's not possible to create a plugin to do the work, and Sublime doesn't have the ability to pre-load the list of packages directly either.
That said, it is possible to manually update the list of recent projects, but whether or not that is more or less work than opening all of the projects is something to consider.
If you use Preferences > Browse Packages from the menu or the command palette, a file browser will open on your Packages folder. From there go up one directory level and go inside of the Local folder, where you will find a Session.sublime_session file.
Sublime saves it's state into this file when you quit it, and uses it to restore state when you start it again. Here you will find all of the saved information, such as the windows and files that were open and so on.
Changing this file will change the data that Sublime loads, so you can modify the session file to set up the data that you want. You need to make sure that you modify the file while Sublime is not running or your changes will be ignored and clobbered away. Also it's a good idea to make a backup of the file before you start in case things go pear shaped.
Down near the bottom of the file you will find a top level key named workspaces, and inside of it a recent_workspaces key:
"workspaces":
{
"recent_workspaces":
[
"/home/tmartin/local/src/OverrideAudit/OverrideAudit.sublime-workspace",
]
}
This is where the list of recent projects is stored for use in the menu and the quick switch project command. Particular things to notice are that the entries are naming sublime-workspace files, and that the paths are absolute.
NOTE: On windows, the filenames stored in the session file are in a format like /C/Users/tmartin and not c:\users\tmartin; on that platform you need to make sure that you adjust the paths accordingly. As long as there is already at least one entry in the list when you look at the session file, you can easily see how to construct the paths that you need.
Despite the name of the commands and menu items, what you're actually switching between is different workspaces. Every sublime-project is associated with a sublime-workspace file, which acts as a dedicated sublime_session file for that particular project. This mapping is one-to-many in that you can have multiple workspaces for the same project file, allowing you to reference the same paths in multiple windows but have different window layouts.
While Sublime is not running you can edit this file to add in the full paths to all of your workspace files; when you start Sublime up the list will be populated (every sublime-workspace file knows what sublime-project it is associated with).
What remains is whether or not it's quick to come up with the list of files in a way that you can easily paste them into the session file.
In SublimeText3 binary_file_patterns excludes files from being found in Files or fuzzy search (Goto Anything) while index_exclude_patterns prevents files from being indexed.
Since we know that not indexed files cannot be found and assuming that untraceable files do not need to be indexed, what are the differences and implications by the usage of one over another?
Sublime maintains a catalog of all known files based on the folders that are currently open in the window/project, and that catalog of files is used to populate the Goto Anything file list and also the list of files that are searched when you do Find in Files.
You can control what appears in the catalog by using the file_exclude_patterns and folder_exclude_patterns settings to stop files from appearing in the sidebar (and thus in the catalog). As you mentioned you can also use binary_file_patterns to indicate that files should still appear in the side bar, but should not be offered in the Goto Anything panel or searched by Find in Files.
In addition to the above, as long as index_files is turned on, then in addition to the file catalog Sublime also runs an indexing process against the files in the side bar as well.
The indexer runs in the background using some number of threads (controlled by index_workers) and essentially loads every file in the side bar, applies the appropriate syntax definition, and then gathers the list of symbols that are marked as ones that should appear in the index (this is a per-syntax setting). The index_exclude_patterns setting specifies files which should not be indexed, even if they appear in the sidebar.
The index is used to power the Goto Definition/Goto Reference/Goto Symbol in Project functionality; it's literally just a list of all of the indexed symbols, what files they appear in, and where in that file that they appear.
Your assumption that files that are not indexed are ones that can't be found is not correct; files that are not indexed can still appear in the side bar and be found by Goto Anything, they just don't contribute symbols to the index, which means the above functionality will not show any content from those files, but you can still open and search them.
So overall, the implications of the two are:
If you want a file to appear in the side bar but you don't want to search inside it or have it eligible for opening with Goto Anything, add it to the binary_file_patterns.
If you want a file to appear in the side bar but not contribute symbols to the index, then add it to the index_exclude_patterns setting.
Files can appear in both settings, in which case you can see them in the side bar but Sublime pretends that they're not there for purposes of all of the above functionality.
I recently upgraded to Textmate 2 and now my dotfiles are not showing up in the file browser. Obviously, this is important when working with stuff like .htaccess files.
Is there a way to enable this feature?
Quick solution
Move the focus to the file browser (⌥⌘⇥) and show invisibles (⌥⌘i)(key names: option/alt+command/windows+i/eye). All invisible files will appear in the file browser. Press ⌥⌘i again to hide them.
Permanent solution
If you want to always show some dotfiles (for instance .htaccess), you can either add them in Preferences > Projects > Include files matching…
or add the list of files you want to show to the include array in one of:
~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Global.tmProperties (same as using Preferences)
~/.tm_properties (global)
.tm_properties (inside a specific directory/project)
You can add all dotfiles (.*) but I don't recommend it since it can be a lot of clutter.
That said, you can also exclude files with the exclude array.
You can modify the behavior of the file browser via the config file ~/.tm_properties
To list all dotfiles and directories, you can set:
include = "{$include,.*}"
If you want to exclude some of those, for example the .git directory, modify the exclude variable:
exclude = "{$exclude,.git}"
There are many more options, check the Textmate site as an entry point for whats possible: http://blog.macromates.com/2011/git-style-configuration/
You can do this in the preferences of Textmate 2.
Navigate to: Textmate -> Preferences -> Projects. You should see two fields, one for including files, and one for excluding. I replaced the value of "Include files matching" with {*,.*} so it includes all normal and hidden files. I then just add the hidden files I want to exclude to the "Exclude files matching" field, such as .git and .DS_Store.