[feature request] [watch task] ignore dotfiles

[jaredly]

vim creates temporary files (prefixed with a .) while editing, which cases the (watch) task to needlessly fire. It would be great to have watch ignore dotfiles altogether, and it would also be nice to be able to specify a whitelist or blacklist of files to care about.

[Deraen]

For now, the preferred solution is to configure your editor to write tempfiles and backups elsewhere, or disable them altogether.

For Vim this should disable these temp files:

set noswapfile

[daveyarwood]

You can also configure Vim to put its swap files elsewhere:

" keeps vim swap files from interfering w/ boot-clj
set backup
set swapfile
set backupdir=~/.vim-tmp
set directory=~/.vim-tmp

[jaredly]

yeah, that's one way to do it. But would it be too difficult to add a config option to boot as well? I like having the tmpfiles in the same directory so that I can easily rm them when necessary

[micha]

There are performance implications, and it adds complexity. It would need to be carefully designed.