Include and Exclude Files

These dialog pages are used to tell Wilbur which files you want included and which files you want excluded from the index. There is one page for each function, but they behave the same way.

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Each page has a list showing the specified files and a number of buttons.

Add Brings up either the include file dialog or the exclude file dialog for entering or browsing for files to enter into the list..
Delete Deletes the selected file names from the list. Multiple list entries can be selected by the standard Window’s methods of holding down the control or shift keys while clicking on an entry.
Edit Brings up a dialog where you can edit the entry which has the focus. Normally this will just be the selected item, but if multiple items have been selected it will be the last one clicked on and will have an outline box around it.
Clear Remove all entries from the list.
Copy Copies the selected entries to Window’s clipboard. Since this is just normal text, it can be pasted into any text editing program for modification.
Paste Takes whatever text is in Window’s clipboard and uses it to add entries to the list. When combined with the Copy button, this makes it easy to move entries between indexes or even to edit entries externally and re-enter them.

It is tempting to just include all the files (*) on your disk and then exclude those files you don’t want indexed like *.exe. You will probably end up with a huge slow index doing this. Instead include those files and file types that you know you want to search through and reserve the exclude list for excluding specific subgroups of those files.

Note that if you accidentally clear one of the file lists, closing and reopening this dialog will not restore the original names. Instead exit the dialog and close the index without saving it. Then read the index back in. The original lists will have been saved with the index.

Be sure to also check the options page for options controlling the characters that are considered parts of words and how zip archives are handled.

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