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Yes, depending on whether you are using ack, ag, rg etc, you can use various options, listed here:

For example, --ignore-dir for ack, --ignore for ag etc.

Autocompletion is available for these when using :Ack and the other commands.

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Cool, I searched for the term exclude instead ignore and missed that.
In the doc as I can see is not explained to configure them as global.
As example I want that hide stuff in the vendor folder but I don't want to write always the parameter.

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@Mte90: since 09290a2 there is a way to configure default options to be passed to the search executable. For the time being, you can set the options once, globally, at start-up time. If you had a need to set it on a per-directory or per-project basis (for example, via an autocmd), we would need to make some changes to make that possible.

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@wincent - I am using Ack, and wish to exclude the tags file in the base of all of my projects.

Currently when I search I get:

My vimrc is basically:

    " search inside files using ripgrep. This plugin provides an Ack command.
    Plug 'wincent/ferret'
    let g:FerretHlsearch=0
    " search with ack for word under cursor
    nmap <leader>A <Plug>(FerretAckWord)
    " search & replace word based on previous search term with Ack
    nmap <leader>p <Plug>(FerretAcks)

I am unclear how to exclude by filename as per your helpful suggestions above. Would you please mind adding a one liner comment with a snippet that illustrates the solution. Thanks for this awesome plugin.

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I tried:

    let g:FerretExecutableArguments = {
    \   'ack': '--ignore-file=tags'
    \ }

But unfortunately it didn't work, the tags results were still present in the quickfix window.

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Ok, I solved this ON THE COMMAND LINE by creating a ~/.ackrc file, and adding:

--ignore-file=is:tags

In case anyone interested, I used this SOF answer and this template ackrc file.

The commit highlighted above by wincent was also helpful in case just wishing to do this locally.

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Spoke too soon. This only works off the command line with ack. Inside VIM using this plugin, the tags file is still being searched. Also:

    let g:FerretExecutableArguments = {
    \   'ack': '--ignore-file=is:tags'
    \ }

Does NOT work. Please help!

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Final comment. My apologies on this one. Am using ag (silver searcher) under the covers despite the :Ack command (as per the README). If I simply create a .ignore file, or else append tags to an existing .gitignore file then it suppresses the tags from appearing in search results.

This one was down to enduser error. Out.

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@kinowarrior: yeah, adding it to the .gitignore is probably the easiest. I am not sure what the current status is with .ignore vs .agignore — it might be version and platform dependent, by the looks of issues like this one.

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If anyone else is wondering why they can't ignore files when using ag it appears to be caused by this

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