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how do I get my Helm Projectile Grep SPC / to ignore all .js files. I have included the *.js entry in my gitignore, but the global search above still pulls it up.

@murtaza52 I use the globbing option to ignore a file extension in search -g!*.js https://practicalli.github.io/spacemacs/spacemacs-basics/working-with-projects/searching-projects.html

This works if you have ripgrep or silver-searcher binaries installed

@jr0cket I installed ripgrepnow how do I ensure that it is being used for searching ?

also is there no way to specify that these files should alwways be excluded in any searching ?

Even when I search for files SPC p fI dont want generated .js files to show up, how do I do that ?

Does this help: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/16497/how-to-exclude-files-from-projectile ?

@murtaza52 if ripgrep is found on the executable path, then it is used. There is a setting in .spacemacs to define a custom order, but by default it will look for ripgrep first.

You can add a .projectile file in the root of a project and add patterns. However, I thought projectile excluded patterns from .gitignore too.

Try reload one of the project files after changing the .gitignore file to get projectile to re-read the .gitignore file

But I'm not sure if that's projectile's fault or the underlying tool (`rg` here)

According to ripgrep docs it does ignore the patterns in .gitignore along with other things https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/GUIDE.md#automatic-filtering