Find in files exclude as a textbox is very limited (not very UX friendly either)

[goanpeca]

(Side note: This \.py\.orig$ makes sense as an extra default for find in files produced by git when rebasing merging)

The issue with the exclude textbox is that it is very limited as more and more things are added. I think exclude should be a two column table, where each row had one entry and the column had a description, so that users can add comments to specific patterns of exclusion. Also this makes the list/table usable when we start adding more exclusion patterns. Also the exclusion patterns right now are python based, moving towards python agnosticism will require more and more patterns and this will make the lineedit unusable.

[andfoy]

The table should include also a checkbox that indicates if a pattern is active or not?

[goanpeca]

The table should include also a checkbox that indicates if a pattern is active or not?

Could be?

[ccordoba12]

I think we could add a Preferences entry for Find in Files to solve this (and also a config entry for Projects)

But this is not something for 3.2 but for Spyder 4.

[ccordoba12]

We added a simpler way to exclude files in 3.x and this is going to be applied to the file names only. I doubt we're going to do something more about this in the future.