First of all, I did a search on the issues but couldn't find a similar proposal, so here it goes:

It'd be nice to have a property holding a list of files or file-globs that either (1) should not be displayed on some file listing (e.g. a folder tree pane), or (2) should not be indexed and/or displayed as search results between a repository.

Basically analogous to Sublime's file_exclude_patterns, folder_exclude_patterns and index_exclude_patterns.

A real-life use case is that I don't want compilation artifacts to be indexed for search, and I'd like to be able to configure that explicitly per-repository.

How do you feel about it?

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