Quick Hide

A tiny VS Code extension that adds a Quick Hide section to the Explorer (right under NPM Scripts) for managing your files.exclude patterns without ever opening settings.json.

What it does

• Lists every pattern from your user files.exclude settings.
• Each row has a checkbox:
  • checked = pattern is hidden (true)
  • unchecked = pattern is visible (false)
• Add Pattern (+ in the view title) to type a new glob. It's added as hidden (true) by default.
• Edit (pencil) and Remove (trash) actions appear inline on each row.

Groups

You can organize patterns into collapsible groups and toggle a whole group at once:

• Add Group (new-folder icon in the view title) creates a group.
• A group's checkbox is checked only when every pattern in it is hidden. Toggling the group sets all its members to that state in one write.
• On a pattern row, Move to Group… (folder icon) assigns it to a group (or creates a new one). Grouped patterns get a Remove from Group action.
• On a group row: + adds a new pattern straight into that group, plus rename and delete. Deleting a group never deletes the patterns — they just become ungrouped again.

Group definitions live in the quickHide.groups user setting (a map of group name → list of patterns). Like everything else, it's stored in your user settings only; files.exclude stays a flat object that any editor understands.

All changes are written to your user settings (global), matching how you normally edit files.exclude by hand.

Why "user settings" only

The view reads inspect('files.exclude').globalValue, so it shows and edits only the patterns you added — never VS Code's built-in defaults like **/.git. That keeps your settings.json clean.

Install

• Marketplace: search for Quick Hide in the Extensions view, or install from the Visual Studio Marketplace.
• From a release: download the .vsix from the latest GitHub release and run code --install-extension quick-hide-<version>.vsix.

Build from source

npm install
npm run package          # produces quick-hide-<version>.vsix
code --install-extension quick-hide-<version>.vsix

Then reload VS Code. Open the Explorer and look for the Quick Hide section.

Develop

Open this folder in VS Code and press F5 to launch an Extension Development Host.