[Geany] Find in files -> exclude version control dirs

[Nick Treleaven]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:55:03 -0600
"Jeff Pohlmeyer" <yetanothergeek at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Harold Aling <h.aling at home.nl> wrote:
> 
> > I'm no grep expert, but --exclude .svn isn't sufficient to hide
> > all .svn entries in the message window(?)

For SVN, I use:
--exclude=*.svn-base

The --exclude option only matches filenames, not directories.

> Shouldn't that be --exclude-dir=.svn ?

Yes, but AFAICT the stable version of Grep doesn't support this yet
(development version does). See:

http://geany.uvena.de/manual/0.13/index.html#filtering-out-version-control-files

> PS: Slightly off-topic, but an interesting project:
> http://searchmonkey.sourceforge.net/index.php/Main_Page

I found a screenshot:
http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=175143

Looks interesting.

Regards,
Nick