How do I use 'wildignore' in Vim?

Question

I\'m having a lot of trouble figuring out the syntax for the wildignore setting in Vim.

Suppose I want my file finder plugin (I use Ctrlp, which uses

Answer 1

Because the title doesn't correspond to the best answer her is mine which corersponds not to ctrlp but to wildignore. Based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/579886/1170940

Vim will ignore file patterns specified in option wildignore , so you can set them like so:

:set wildignore=*.o,*~,*.pyc

For example, my wildignore looks as such

 set wildignore+=*/node_modules/*,_site,*/__pycache__/,*/venv/*,*/target/*,*/.vim$,\~$,*/.log,*/.aux,*/.cls,*/.aux,*/.bbl,*/.blg,*/.fls,*/.fdb*/,*/.toc,*/.out,*/.glo,*/.log,*/.ist,*/.fdb_latexmk

I use it for both ctrlp and NERDTree