giantopk.blogg.se - Beyond compare notepad++

, otherwise you won't be able to distinguish these two cases: You would still need to distinguish between the name wildcard * and the subtree wildcard. Of course the syntax will have to be adapted to Notepad++'s existing syntax, so I guess it will be ! instead of - and space instead of semicolon. You can also use common * wildcards in your directory names:

C:\temp\look_here\sub1\sub2\sub3\notme.txt.

C:\temp\look_here\do_not_look_here\sub2\sub3\file.txt.

C:\temp\look_here\sub1\sub2\sub3\file1.txt.

So assuming C:\ is your working directory, the filter above will include ) is a wildcard for one or multiple directories. which translates into a single string (so the dialog is optional):

So instead of saying give me *.txt but not in directory c:\temp, you are saying give me *.txt but ignore c:\temp\*.*. What makes this beautiful to use is that your directory filter must always include the file filters, so you don't have to worry specifying a separate syntax for filtering a file or a folder. Therefore I'm going to ignore Beyond Compare's directory filtering here, which only includes/excludes directories themselves and does not care for their contents.īeyond Compare's file filtering, however, allows for including or excluding files that reside in specific directories. I'm a big fan of their solution to file/directory filtering.įor them it is important to treat directories as a work item, which will not be relevant to Notepad++ since you only work directly on files. I'd like to mention how Beyond Compare does this very nicely.

When a folder name matches a glob, that folder will be completely skipped (as if the folder had been marked hidden).

Globs are matched against the name of each encountered folder.

Only folder name globs are allowed (no paths).

src/**/tmp excludes c:/myProj/ALT3/SUB2/src/XX/YY/ZZ/tmp/ and c:/myProj/ALT7/LL/NN/OO/tmp/ (in addition to the folders excluded by and ).īut, I do expect tmp-* to exclude all folders (at any level) whose names start with tmp.

/src/**/tmp excludes c:/myProj/src/AA/BB/tmp/ and c:/myProj/src/AA/CC/tmp/ (in addition to the folders excluded by ).

src/*/tmp also excludes c:/myProj/ALT1/src/ABC/tmp/ and c:/myProj/ALT2/src/ABC/tmp/ (can match anywhere in the search-folder-hierarchy, because src/*/tmp is un-rooted).

/src/*/tmp excludes c:/myProj/src/ABC/tmp/ and c:/myProj/src/XYZ/tmp/ ( c:/myProj/ is the root of the search-folder-hierarchy).src/tmp) to be supported, as this would become too complicated: All folders named logs shall be excluded: in the top-folder, any sub-folder, any sub-sub-folder, etc.