Vscode-intelephense: Use `search.exclude` instead of `files.exclude`?

[sebastienbarre]

Thanks for the hard work.

Since Intellisense helps with searching for code completion, symbols, signatures, etc, shouldn't the indexer obey search.exclude instead of files.exclude?

The use case here is that I do not want my huge Vendor directory to be indexed, but I do want to see it in the Explorer panel, so that I can manually open a file from there. By putting **/Vendor in search.exclude I successfully prevent VS from presenting files from Vendor when I use "File->Open...", but I can still pick a file in Vendor from the explorer. Unfortunately, vscode-intelephense uses files.excludes...

[jimblue]

Thanks @sebastienbarre, I agree this is a most wanted feature.

It could also be controlled by an extension specific setting entry.

Cheers

[ottopic]

Hello,
Hi think I have the same problem.

I'm using VS Code 1.30.2 on Mac OS 10.14.3 and my work's folder is on samba server.

/Volumes/space/libs/
/Volumes/space/commons/
/Volumes/space/Works/project1/
/Volumes/space/Works/project2/

I work on "space" volume but I don't need to index all folders because there are too many files.

I tried configuring Watcher Exclude and Search Exclude but indexing go on causing traffic congestion on server.

"search.exclude": {
    "**/Volumes/space/commons/**": true,
    "**/Volumes/space/libs/**": true,
},
"files.watcherExclude": {
    "**/Volumes/space/commons/**": true,
    "**/Volumes/space/libs/**": true,
},

How can I solve it?

[aNickzz]

I'm having a similar problem, but I disagree with OP.
The search.useIgnoreFiles is for limiting the search results, which should be independent of what gets indexed for intelephense. Eg. when doing a search and replace I don't want any results from the vendor folder, but I still want indexing for vendor classes.

[aNickzz]

I mentioned search.useIgnoreFiles, but I think its relevant to the other search.* settings

[sebastienbarre]

@aNickzz Your files.exclude is also automatically used when you do search/replace, according to a few sources (see here).

[sebastienbarre]

Though ideally an indexing.exclude would be nice...

[bmewburn]

1.0 has a new setting intelephense.files.exclude that takes an array of file globs to exclude.

[ottopic]

1.0 has a new setting intelephense.files.exclude that takes an array of file globs to exclude.

Is this the corrects configuration?

"intelephense.files.exclude": [
        "**/.js",
        "**/.png",
        "**/.jpg",
        "**/.css",
        "**/.pdf",
        "**/.txt",
        "**/Volume/aaa/**",
        "**/Volume/bbb/**"
],

[bmewburn]

Are the **/.js etc directories? If so it should be **/.js/**. If they are file extensions it would be **/*.js but this is unnecessary as only files associated with php are looked for. To exclude whole directories and contents the pattern **/Volume/aaa/** is correct.

[ottopic]

Ok, thanks. Great work.