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Reputation: 315

VScode: Is there a way to hide symlink results from Go to file.. (quick file open)? And search in general?

When one searches or uses the Goto file (Quick open) command (cmd+P), the search automatically includes everything from symlink folders. This makes the quick open useless if there are a lot of symlink folders.

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Is there a way to exclude the symlinks? Or is this a feature request?

PS:

In project search, one can forcefully exclude paths, so I exclude the big symlink folders, but it's manual, not persistent, and it still does not affect ctrl+P.

Upvotes: 18

Views: 6147

Answers (2)

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 182241

There is a setting that will disable search from following symlinks. Disable:

Search: Follow Symlinks

Upvotes: 17

Derwent
Derwent

Reputation: 625

I would love to know if anyone has a better solution to this. I use my terminal to open VSCode so my solution was to use a bash function to open vscode with the realpath of the directory like this:

function vscr() {
    python -c "import os,sys; target=os.path.realpath(os.path.expanduser(sys.argv[1])); os.execv('/usr/local/bin/code', ['', target])" "$1"
}

so effectively vscr <symlink> expands to code <realpath>

Upvotes: 0

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