Thanks but as I mentioned, I already knew about this setting. Problem was, that I couldn’t get it to work properly.
But I think I found out what was causing my issue and it seems to be a little bug. Suppose the following scenario: You load a project (.ppr) that contains multiple files and folders that are displayed in the project’s treeview on the left. Now you want to exclude one of the folders, e. g. a folder called “dist”, because it contains build data you don’t want to be indexed. So you open PSPad’s settings, go to files and folders and enter “dist” as exclusion sequence. You save the settings and refresh / resynchronize the project’s structure via Project menu. Expected behavior would be, that the recently excluded folder disappears but in fact it is still present in the project. Now if I close PSPad, restart the program and refresh / synchronize the project files again, the folder suddenly disappears as expected previously. So the bug here seems to be that folder exclusions are not applied immediately. Instead you have to restart the program and synchronize again before it shows an effect. Hope this help, best regards! -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?4,66558,66874> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
