Support for regex in sources

[chrbirks]

Hi
Is there, or do you have plans for, support for specifying multiple source files using regex or something similar? For example to include all .vhd and .vhdl files in all subdirectories:

{
   "sources": [
      "src/**/*.vhd*"
   ]
}

[suoto]

Possibly yes via glob style patterns. The only issue is how to trigger searching when files are added or removed after the file has been read.

I learned recently that LSP allows servers to have custom commands, but I'd rather have this running without user intervention (and without hogging the cpu by searching over and over)

[chrbirks]

Okay I wasn't aware that adding sources to the config file while the server is running was possible. So yes, indexing new files should be handled in a nice way somehow. The LSP server I currently use for VHDL cannot handling adding/removing source files while running so that hasn't been a problem.

[suoto]

Support for specifying using Python glob, which allows patterns like /project/foo/*.vhd and, in case of Python 3, allows recursive inclusion with /project/**/*.vhd (will include all .vhd files inside /project/). More info on how glob behaves, have a look at https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html.

The server won't automatically search for files, to trigger that you can (1) remove HDL Checker work folder (<root_path>/.hdl_checker/ on Unix, <root_path>\\_hdl_checker\\ on Win) or (2) change the config file timestamp.

Thanks for reporting, let me know if there's any other issue! 👍

[chrbirks]

Thanks I'll give et a try in the next release.