How do I exclude files and directories from a project in vim (using janus)?

Question

I'm moving from Textmate to vim (with janus) and want to exclude some directories from Ack in particular, and also NERDTree.

The reason I want to do this is that Ack is useless (takes minutes to run, and produces no results) with one of my large projects which contains a directory full of marshalled db data (with many subdirectories and hundreds of thousands of files).

I know how to exclude files (not directories) from NERDTree, and also exclude patterns from CommandT. Neither of these solve my Ack issue.

I'm a complete vim n00b. Thanks for reading.

Chancy

What options do you use for Ack? --ignore-dir=nameOfDirectory will ignore nameOfDirectory. – Ozoniferous

Answer 1

By default, ack only checks your ~/.ackrc file for it’s default switches. You can have per directory ack settings if you add this to your .bash_profile:

export ACKRC=".ackrc"

http://www.rustyrazorblade.com/2012/03/making-better-use-of-your-ackrc-file/

Wilmawilmar

Actually ack looks in multiple locations for .ackrc. Not just ~/.ackrc. Please refer to the ack documentation beyondgrep.com/documentation/…. It looks at all the locations, global, user and project. – Sympathizer

Answer 2

For NerdTree, use NERDTreeIgnore setting.

as for Ack - you can set --ignore-dir flag in your .ackrc (as explained in Ack's man page)

Ptah

Thanks. So it's not possible to do exclude directories from Ack on a per-project basis? – Chancy

You could create a wrapper script which sets ACK_OPTIONS per project basis, so it would be something like ACK_OPTIONS=--ignore-dir=lolwut ack $1 and use it instead of ack command. – Ptah

I think this is the best I can get. Thanks! – Chancy

Answer 3

I only had to create a .ackrc in my top directory with the following:

--ignore-dir=log/

Saintjust