https://drlongnecker.com/tags/intellisense/Recent content in Intellisense on David R. Longnecker - Converting Coffee to CodeHugoen-USThu, 24 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0600https://drlongnecker.com/blog/2026/09/lua-intellisense-disappear-vscode/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0600https://drlongnecker.com/blog/2026/09/lua-intellisense-disappear-vscode/<p>A few nights ago, I started cleaning up my VSCode workspace file on one of my larger projects. I had an extensive list of <code>search.exclude</code> entries for various dot folders, logs, and <code>node_modules</code>.</p> <p>VSCode let&rsquo;s you glob things together to save time and apply similar rules to brace groups, which is great:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#e6edf3;background-color:#0d1117;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-json" data-lang="json"><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#a5d6ff">&#34;search.exclude&#34;</span><span style="color:#f85149">:</span> { </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> <span style="color:#7ee787">&#34;**/{.local, .cache, .github}/**&#34;</span>: <span style="color:#79c0ff">true</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>} </span></span></code></pre></div><p>It&rsquo;s a nice shorthand for the same folders and rules you might have in <code>search.exclude</code>. <code>files.watcherExclude</code>, <code>files.exclude</code>, and similar arrays.</p>