This was because I wasn't quoting the pattern (others I've used haven't needed quotes). *'**/README.md'* worked.
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 11:45 AM Max Ghenis <mghe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using jupyter-book <http://jupyterbook.org>'s exclude_patterns config > field (inherited from Sphinx) and am looking to exclude several files named > README.md in different folders. I'm having trouble figuring out how to do > that, and it's not one of the documented patterns > <https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html#confval-exclude_patterns>. > Here's what I've tried - any help appreciated. Thanks -- Max > > 1. **README* *didn't exclude > 2. *README* didn't exclude > 3. ***README.md** *threw error "expected alphabetic or numeric > character" > 4. ***README.md *threw error (same) > 5. ***/README.md *threw error (same) > 6. ***README.md* *threw error (same) > 7. **/README.md *threw error (same) > > Filed in https://github.com/executablebooks/jupyter-book/issues/753 but > coming to the source here instead. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "sphinx-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sphinx-users/wrsLpS51yow/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > sphinx-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sphinx-users/cadf07df-4b19-49ec-ac5d-891505e71128n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sphinx-users/cadf07df-4b19-49ec-ac5d-891505e71128n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sphinx-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sphinx-users/CAHkeydpy89%3DJJaHFLiEreKLW6K_G0PddcpaOswC3VaM--Z59ww%40mail.gmail.com.