How to test for project or directory? about vscode-runonsave

[bmingles]

@MichaelSWE For testing files in a project, you can configure the extension in your workspace settings instead of your user settings. Any settings set at the workspace level should only apply to that workspace.

For targetting folders, you could probably use the match parameter as you mentioned. It is just a regex string. Note that the path separator is OS specific (Windows = \, Mac = /, Linux = /). Since you will be setting this in a JSON value, backslashes will need to be double escaped (\ becomes \\)

eg. in Windows

c:\some\path\*.txt

could be targetted using the Regex

\\some\\path\\[^\\]+\.txt$ (NOTE the escaped backslashes in Regex)

Which would need additional escaping once put in JSON

{ "match": "\\\\some\\\\path\\\\[^\\\\]+\\.txt$" }

[msageryd]

Brilliant!
I hadn't even noticed that there were workspace specific settings. VSCode seems better for each day.

And, I see now why my match attempts failed. I used far to few backslashes in my regexp ;)