Allow to exclude folders from processing

[Silver Zachara]

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Summary

Is there any vscode setting how I can tell the PowerShell extension to exclude some folders?

Eg. look at this, it's from my dotfiles, the problem is that my dotfiles also contain the vscode profile in the git repo:

There are 5 references in total, 2 in the pms.ps1 script and 3 in the pmu.ps1, but the PowerShell extension of course counts references from all the .ps1 files in the current project (what is the correct behavior). What can I do about this?

I tried to add the path to the files.exclude and it isn't accepted, I don't even know if the files.exclude would be a good solution for this.

I am lacking some vscode setting that allows excluding for this extension, eg. powershell.exclude.

PowerShell Version

λ $PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.3.8
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.3.8
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.22631
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Visual Studio Code Version

λ code --version
1.83.1
f1b07bd25dfad64b0167beb15359ae573aecd2cc
x64

Extension Version

λ code --list-extensions --show-versions | Select-String powershell

ms-vscode.powershell@2023.8.0

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[Silver Zachara]

@andyleejordan

[Sydney Smith]

    "search.exclude": {
        "vscodeglobpatternhere": true,
    },
    // or
    "powershell.analyzeOpenDocumentsOnly": true,

Thanks @silverqx this should be the setting

[Andy Jordan]

Essentially the extension respects the built-in search.exclude setting:

  // Configure glob patterns for excluding files and folders in fulltext searches and quick open. Inherits all glob patterns from the `files.exclude` setting.
  "search.exclude": {
    "**/node_modules": true,
    "**/bower_components": true,
    "**/*.code-search": true
  },

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/settings

[Silver Zachara]

The search.exclude doesn't work for me, it doesn't affect these References.

Also, I discovered that I already had these folders in the search.exclude and also in files.exclude but References are still counted from these folders.

I have something like this in my settings (I have replaced my personal paths with this <secret> strings, they are real paths in my settings):

{
    "files.exclude": {
        "dotfiles/<host-secret>/C/Users/<username-secret>/AppData/Roaming/Code/User/globalStorage/": true,
        "dotfiles/<host-secret>/C/Users/<username-secret>/AppData/Roaming/Code/User/History/": true,
        "dotfiles/<host-secret>/C/Users/<username-secret>/AppData/Roaming/Code/User/sync/": true,
        "dotfiles/<host-secret>/C/Users/<username-secret>/AppData/Roaming/Code/User/workspaceStorage/": true,
        "dotfiles/<host-secret>/C/Users/<username-secret>/AppData/Roaming/Notepad++/backup/": true
    },
    "search.exclude": {
        "dotfiles/<host-secret>/C/Users/<username-secret>/AppData/Roaming/Code/User/globalStorage/": true,
        "dotfiles/<host-secret>/C/Users/<username-secret>/AppData/Roaming/Code/User/History/": true,
        "dotfiles/<host-secret>/C/Users/<username-secret>/AppData/Roaming/Code/User/sync/": true,
        "dotfiles/<host-secret>/C/Users/<username-secret>/AppData/Roaming/Code/User/workspaceStorage/": true,
        "dotfiles/<host-secret>/C/Users/<username-secret>/AppData/Roaming/Notepad++/backup/": true
    }
}

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