Exclude folders

[Mte90]

There is a way to exclude folders where ferret search?

[wincent]

Yes, depending on whether you are using ack, ag, rg etc, you can use various options, listed here:

ferret/autoload/ferret/private.vim

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	let s:options = {
	\ 'ack': [
	\ '--ignore-ack-defaults',
	\ '--ignore-case',
	\ '--ignore-dir',
	\ '--ignore-directory',
	\ '--invert-match',
	\ '--known-types',
	\ '--literal',
	\ '--no-recurse',
	\ '--recurse',
	\ '--sort-files',
	\ '--type',
	\ '--word-regexp',
	\ '-1',
	\ '-Q',
	\ '-R',
	\ '-i',
	\ '-k',
	\ '-r',
	\ '-v',
	\ '-w',
	\ ],
	\ 'ag': [
	\ '--all-types',
	\ '--all-text',
	\ '--case-sensitive',
	\ '--depth',
	\ '--follow',
	\ '--ignore',
	\ '--ignore-case',
	\ '--ignore-dir',
	\ '--invert-match',
	\ '--literal',
	\ '--max-count',
	\ '--skip-vcs-ignores',
	\ '--unrestricted',
	\ '--word-regexp',
	\ '-Q',
	\ '-U',
	\ '-a',
	\ '-i',
	\ '-m',
	\ '-s',
	\ '-t',
	\ '-u',
	\ '-v',
	\ '-w'
	\ ],
	\ 'rg': [
	\ '--case-sensitive',
	\ '--files-with-matches',
	\ '--follow',
	\ '--glob',
	\ '--hidden',
	\ '--ignore-case',
	\ '--invert-match',
	\ '--max-count',
	\ '--maxdepth',
	\ '--mmap',
	\ '--no-ignore',
	\ '--no-ignore-parent',
	\ '--no-ignore-vcs',
	\ '--no-mmap',
	\ '--regexp',
	\ '--smart-case',
	\ '--text',
	\ '--threads',
	\ '--type',
	\ '--type-not',
	\ '--unrestricted',
	\ '--word-regexp',
	\ '-F',
	\ '-L',
	\ '-R',
	\ '-T',
	\ '-a',
	\ '-e',
	\ '-g',
	\ '-i',
	\ '-j',
	\ '-m',
	\ '-s',
	\ '-t',
	\ '-u',
	\ '-v',
	\ '-w'
	\ ]
	\ }

For example, --ignore-dir for ack, --ignore for ag etc.

Autocompletion is available for these when using :Ack and the other commands.

[Mte90]

Cool, I searched for the term exclude instead ignore and missed that.
In the doc as I can see is not explained to configure them as global.
As example I want that hide stuff in the vendor folder but I don't want to write always the parameter.

[wincent]

@Mte90: since 09290a2 there is a way to configure default options to be passed to the search executable. For the time being, you can set the options once, globally, at start-up time. If you had a need to set it on a per-directory or per-project basis (for example, via an autocmd), we would need to make some changes to make that possible.

[kinowarrior]

@wincent - I am using Ack, and wish to exclude the tags file in the base of all of my projects.

Currently when I search I get:

My vimrc is basically:

    " search inside files using ripgrep. This plugin provides an Ack command.
    Plug 'wincent/ferret'
    let g:FerretHlsearch=0
    " search with ack for word under cursor
    nmap <leader>A <Plug>(FerretAckWord)
    " search & replace word based on previous search term with Ack
    nmap <leader>p <Plug>(FerretAcks)

I am unclear how to exclude by filename as per your helpful suggestions above. Would you please mind adding a one liner comment with a snippet that illustrates the solution. Thanks for this awesome plugin.

[kinowarrior]

I tried:

    let g:FerretExecutableArguments = {
    \   'ack': '--ignore-file=tags'
    \ }

But unfortunately it didn't work, the tags results were still present in the quickfix window.

[kinowarrior]

Ok, I solved this ON THE COMMAND LINE by creating a ~/.ackrc file, and adding:

--ignore-file=is:tags

In case anyone interested, I used this SOF answer and this template ackrc file.

The commit highlighted above by wincent was also helpful in case just wishing to do this locally.

[kinowarrior]

Spoke too soon. This only works off the command line with ack. Inside VIM using this plugin, the tags file is still being searched. Also:

    let g:FerretExecutableArguments = {
    \   'ack': '--ignore-file=is:tags'
    \ }

Does NOT work. Please help!

[kinowarrior]

Final comment. My apologies on this one. Am using ag (silver searcher) under the covers despite the :Ack command (as per the README). If I simply create a .ignore file, or else append tags to an existing .gitignore file then it suppresses the tags from appearing in search results.

This one was down to enduser error. Out.

[wincent]

@kinowarrior: yeah, adding it to the .gitignore is probably the easiest. I am not sure what the current status is with .ignore vs .agignore — it might be version and platform dependent, by the looks of issues like this one.

[NICHTJ3]

If anyone else is wondering why they can't ignore files when using ag it appears to be caused by this