Ignoring temporary files created by editor (flycheck in emacs)

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I’m trying to get Hugo to ignore the temporary files created by flycheck (a syntax checker - I use it with http://proselint.com so I’d rather not just turn it off). While editing a file in /content these files are created and I’d like to prevent them triggering a rebuild:

Change detected, rebuilding site
2018-03-24 15:01:25.094 +0000
Source changed "/Users/jamie/work/test.com/content/flycheck__index.md": REMOVE
Total in 24 ms

I’ve tried lots of variations on the following in my config.toml:

ignoreFiles = [ ".*flycheck__.*" ]

But nothing seems to work and I still see the files popping up in my terminal log. Am I misunderstanding what ignoreFiles does and it only prevents the file being processed but still triggers a rebuild? Or maybe I’m just making some silly regex mistake?

2

Try it like this

ignoreFiles = [ 'flycheck__' ]
3

Thanks for the suggestion - don’t think I’d tried that, unfortunately I still get:

Change detected, rebuilding site
2018-03-24 17:41:14.448 +0000
Source changed "/Users/jamie/work/test.com/content/support/flycheck_2017-10-24-find-project-by-project-number.md": CREATE
Total in 21 ms
4

I use this yaml-record and it works. Try adding an extension, if that does not help then I do not know.

ignoreFiles:
  - 'nav\.txt'
  - '\.zip'
  - '\.7z'
  - '\.tiff?'
  - '_rjtemp_mkfile\.htm'
5

Perhaps Hugo can not ignore the files of the markdown. Try adding an entry for the zip archive and check whether Hugo ignores it.

6

Can you trace to the function creating those files, and then change the directory where those files get created?