make telescope use the wildignore settings

[jtourlamain]

I don't know if it's possible to make telescope use the wildignore settings that can be defined in the user/settings.lua? Now it seems that telescope displays all files while searching. Or is there another way to set it in the user/settings.lua file?

[mehalter]

@jtourlamain Could you describe more exactly what you mean/are looking for telescope to do? Maybe a link to the telescope documentation of what customization you want to make?

[jtourlamain]

@mehalter when searching for files in a project, I don't want to see dll files, files in the obj or bin folder,... So I've put the follogin in my user/settings.lua file:

polish = function()
    local opts = { noremap = true, silent = true }
    local map = vim.api.nvim_set_keymap
    local set = vim.opt
    -- Set options
    set.relativenumber = true
    set.wildignore = [[
       .git,.hg,.svn
       *.aux,*.out,*.toc
       *.o,*.obj,*.exe,*.dll,*.manifest,*.rbc,*.class
       *.ai,*.bmp,*.gif,*.ico,*.jpg,*.jpeg,*.png,*.psd,*.webp
       *.avi,*.divx,*.mp4,*.webm,*.mov,*.m2ts,*.mkv,*.vob,*.mpg,*.mpeg
       *.mp3,*.oga,*.ogg,*.wav,*.flac
       *.eot,*.otf,*.ttf,*.woff
       *.doc,*.pdf,*.cbr,*.cbz
       *.zip,*.tar.gz,*.tar.bz2,*.rar,*.tar.xz,*.kgb
       *.swp,.lock,.DS_Store,._*
       */tmp/*,*/obj/*,*/bin/*,*.so,*.swp,*.zip,**/node_modules/**,**/target/**,**.terraform/**"
    ]]

    -- Set key bindings
    map("n", "<C-s>", ":w!<CR>", opts)

    -- Set autocommands
    vim.cmd [[
      augroup packer_conf
        autocmd!
        autocmd bufwritepost plugins.lua source <afile> | PackerSync
      augroup end
    ]]
  end,

[mehalter]

@jtourlamain Telescope has a separate configuration for file ignore patterns. Not sure if you can make it use wildignore. You can achieve this with the following code added to the overrides table in settings.lua:

overrides = {
  telescope = {
    defaults = {
      file_ignore_patterns = {
        ".git",
        ".hg",
        ".svn",
        "*.aux",
        "*.out",
        "*.toc",
        "*.o",
        "*.obj",
        "*.exe",
        "*.dll",
        "*.manifest",
        "*.rbc",
        "*.class",
        "*.ai",
        "*.bmp",
        "*.gif",
        "*.ico",
        "*.jpg",
        "*.jpeg",
        "*.png",
        "*.psd",
        "*.webp",
        "*.avi",
        "*.divx",
        "*.mp4",
        "*.webm",
        "*.mov",
        "*.m2ts",
        "*.mkv",
        "*.vob",
        "*.mpg",
        "*.mpeg",
        "*.mp3",
        "*.oga",
        "*.ogg",
        "*.wav",
        "*.flac",
        "*.eot",
        "*.otf",
        "*.ttf",
        "*.woff",
        "*.doc",
        "*.pdf",
        "*.cbr",
        "*.cbz",
        "*.zip",
        "*.tar.gz",
        "*.tar.bz2",
        "*.rar",
        "*.tar.xz",
        "*.kgb",
        "*.swp",
        ".lock",
        ".DS_Store",
        "._*",
        "*/tmp/*",
        "*/obj/*",
        "*/bin/*",
        "*.so",
        "*.swp",
        "*.zip",
        "**/node_modules/**",
        "**/target/**",
        "**.terraform/**",
      },
    },
  },
}

[jtourlamain]

@mehalter thx a lot! It works

[ErnieBernie10]

Sorry to reopen. Where is this settings.lua file you are talking about. I have the init.lua file in my user directory, but I don't know where to add the above configuration to.

[jtourlamain]

@ErnieBernie10 since release 1.0 the lua/user/settings.lua file is renamed to lua/user/init.lua. Keep in mind that now you need to create the directory user (cf their readme: https://github.com/kabinspace/AstroVim#%EF%B8%8F-configuration) In the file lua/user/init.lua you can use:

plugins = {
  telescope = {
    defaults = {
      file_ignore_patterns = {
        ".git",
       -- all your ignore settings come here
        "**.terraform/**",
      },
    },
  },
}

[ErnieBernie10]

Thanks for the reply! After I added this configuration telescope just broke entirely and doesn't show any files.