Restricted Textmate Command+T (jump to file)

11175 · March 27, 2009, 8:28am

Hi,

Does any Textmate user know how to tell the jump to file command to not look in some folders? Currently my doc/ and spec/ folders are polluting the search facility, and it has become very hard for me to get to the desired file.

Thanks in advance.

Greg_Donald1 · March 27, 2009, 9:44pm

Someone on a Textmate list would probably know.

And since it's proprietary software you should at least be able to pose the question to the author.

11175 · March 28, 2009, 5:55pm

Someone on a Textmate list would probably know.

I'm surprised that no one in this list didn't already run into this issue.

Greg_Donald1 · March 30, 2009, 2:09pm

Not all Rails users are Textmate users. Most of the Rails developers I know in IRL use Linux so Textmate isn't even an option for them.

Robby_Russell1 · March 30, 2009, 2:33pm

Look in Preferences > Advanced > Folder References.

There is a sexy regular expression for "Folder Pattern"... which you can modify to include the directories you want to ignore. I don't ignore 'spec', because I tend to jump to those files a lot. However, I do block 'vendor'. This also impacts your Find|Grep|Ack in project settings, so keep that in mind.

Good luck.

Cheers, Robby