How to make ivy ignore certain files?

[kaushalmodi]

Is there a way to make ivy not list the #*#, .* and *~ files when using find-file with ivy-mode enabled?

Just like ido, is it possible to not list them by default, but auto-complete them if the user wants to?

Here is an example use case:

• .gitignore should not be listed when I do M-x find-file
• But if I type .giti and then hit TAB it should autocomplete it.

[abo-abo]

You can do it using :matcher, see the implementation of counsel-git-grep. But then you'd have to call your own custom find-file-1.

[abo-abo]

Thanks. I'll probably make counsel-find-file-ignore-regexp not hide anything by default in the future, so that it's less surprising.

[kaushalmodi]

Thanks for implementing this; I hadn't yet got a chance to look into this.