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In Midnight Commander, is it possible to exclude some directories/patterns/... when doing search? (M-?) I'm specifically interested in skipping the .hg subdirectory.

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In the "[Misc]" section of your ~/.mc/ini file, you can specify the directories you wish to skip in the "find_ignore_dirs" setting.

To specify multiple directories, use a colon (":") as the delimiter.

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Thanks a lot! That seems only to work for absolute dirs, but that's still something. And your hint helped me to start further research, which seems to show that some cutting-edge versions of mc seem to have this feature boosted a bit. – akavel Apr 26 '11 at 7:48
It definitely would be nice if this could be a part of the user interface since changes to configuration files tend to be more permanent. Thanks for the update! – Randolf Richardson Apr 26 '11 at 14:25

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