How can I ignore folders that are "added" to my workspace?

[Timmiej93]

So I open a folder in VSCode, and then add some folders in other locations to the workspace through File > Add folder to workspace. One of those folders is called "_ SDK _", and I only want to use it for reference. I'm okay with VSCode getting libary info there, but ignoring it completely is fine too.

I tried everything I could think of in the Lua.Workspace.ignoreDir setting. I tried:

• */_ SDK _/*
• */_ SDK _/
• */_ SDK _
• _ SDK _/*
• [ All of the above but with a backslash instead of a forward slash ]
• _ SDK _
• C:\full\path\_ SDK _
• C:\full\path\_ SDK _\*

None of those worked. Am I simply missing something, or is it not possible to ignore folders like this?

[carsakiller]

Hello 👋

Check your diagnostics.ignoredFiles setting and make sure that it is not set to still diagnose ignored files.

The workspace.ignoreDir setting uses glob pattern syntax, so adding _SDK_ should work as far as I am aware.

[Timmiej93]

Hi, thanks for your reply.

diagnostics.ignoredFiles is set to opened, so that shouldn't be an issue.

I think I just found part of the issue. I created a folder called test inside my main folder, and added that test folder to the ignoreDir, worked like a charm. However, the folders that I add to my workspace aren't inside my main folder, they're siblings to the main folder, so that's probably why they don't get picked up. Any idea if those can be ignored too?

root
|--- mainFolder
|    |--- /test
|    |--- /other folder
|    |--- file
|--- Other folder
|    |--- file
|--- _ SDK _
|    |--- file

[carsakiller]

Ah I see, this is likely then due to each workspace getting its own context, therefor your setting to ignore _SDK_ does not get honoured because _SDK_ has its own context (and own settings), likely overriding your setting to ignore it. You should be able to fix this by creating a settings file in the _SDK_ directory:

root/_SDK_/.vscode/settings.json:

{
    "Lua.diagnostics.ignoreDir": ["*"]
}

You may be able to do diagnostics.enable = false, but that may turn them off globally.

[Timmiej93]

I had to change your suggestion slightly, but this indeed does work, thanks. Too bad this has to be a setting that's defined on the folder level. For me it doesn't matter much thankfully.

{
    "Lua.workspace.ignoreDir": ["*"]
}

To continue on this question: Would it also be possible to use the SDK folder as a library for the main folder? If it was a contained folder, I guess "Lua.workspace.library": ["_ SDK _"] would work. Is it possible to do something like this in my situation?

[carsakiller]

The path would likely have to be absolute for the library setting.