Feature Request: Exclusion of filetype for folder

[qiushihe]

QS currently have the ability for me to specify which filetype (extension) to include for indexing for a particular folder in the catalog -- and if it's left empty, then all filetypes in the folder will be indexed -- but most of the time what I need is to specify which filetype to be excluded.

For example, I would like to index my "projects" folders but would like to exclude all ".svn" folders and ".git" folders as well. I may also want to index a windows partition but have all ".exe", ".dll", etc. excluded as well.

Currently I have to manually exclude all the folders I don't want by unchecking them in the content panel. It's would be so much easier if I can say: for this folder, index all its content except files that matches this regex.

[qiushihe]

in case anyone actually cares, I've done this myself: http://surrealtime.tumblr.com/qs

[quicksilver]

qiushihe; just so I can maybe close this, have you made a pull request to us to merge the changes you made to the main branch?

I can't remember if it's already been done or not!

I'll test out your release if not, then pull it over :)

P.S. you may need to re-fork from this new repository and re-add the changes since your changes were made quite a few months back

[qiushihe]

Hi, I don't remember if I made the pull request. But I'll send one over tonight :)

[qiushihe]

okay, pull request sent.

[qiushihe]

And I did re-forked and apparently my commits are already merged in. I did a build and verified the the feature is working as expected. So I think you can close this issue now :)

[quicksilver]

Hmm.... still doesn't work for me.

Step:

Open the catalog prefs:
Click the '+' add file & folder scanner
Pick a directory with .txt and other files in.
Set 'include contents' to 'folder contents'
Exclude box pops up.
Type in '.txt' or txt (Tried both)
click the refresh icon arrow
The .txt files still show up in the 'contents' pane.

[qiushihe]

hmm, interesting... it's definitely not doing that for me. I followed the exact steps you listed and the text files disappeared after clicking the refresh icon

[quicksilver]

Are you running the version downloadable from this repo, or your own?

[qiushihe]

I'm not sure what you mean by "downloadable from this repo", but I basically forked this repo (I just did like 30min ago), checked out my fork, and built the app.

[quicksilver]

Sorry, downloadable from the downloads page:

https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/downloads