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R: Consider ignoring `.o` and `.so` files in the file explorer
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Description
You can do that with this setting
"files.exclude": {
"**/*.o": true,
"**/*.so": true
}
We would also include whatever the Windows equivalent of .so is.
This would probably be a positron-r configuration setting. I'm trying to think of a way that we can make it only apply to the src/ folder of an R package, but I'm not sure how.
These files are generally just pretty noisy and we never show them in RStudio
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Research direction
Start with the files.exclude setting and the file explorer behavior described in the issue. Determine how a Positron-R setting could limit exclusion to an R package's src/ folder, include the Windows shared-library extension, and verify that the resulting explorer no longer shows these files.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript, vscode
- Domain
- desktop, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100