How to ignore a folder in definition index for Sublime Text 3?

Question

Sublime Text added a new feature to show function definition.

Do you know how to disable "dist" folder from the index?

Answer 1

There is a setting called index_exclude_patterns which can be used to exclude specific file patterns from the index. The default value of this is:

// index_exclude_patterns indicate which files won't be indexed.
"index_exclude_patterns": ["*.log"],

However it seems this can only specify file patterns, not directory patterns. So things like "dist", "dist*", "dist/" or "dist/*" do not work.

In this case a workaround is to amend the binary_file_patterns setting. The default for this is:

// These files will still show up in the side bar, but won't be included in
// Goto Anything or Find in Files
"binary_file_patterns": ["*.jpg", "*.jpeg", "*.png", "*.gif", "*.ttf", "*.tga", "*.dds", "*.ico", "*.eot", "*.pdf", "*.swf", "*.jar", "*.zip"],

Files that are binary are not indexed and so won't show up in the definition list.

Adding "dist/*" to the list of patterns should fix the problem up for you. Note that if you don't already have a custom setting for this you should probably copy the default first, otherwise things like images won't be considered binary any longer.