How many times have you done a Find in Project (Command-Shift-F) in TextMate and accidentally searched through your Rails development.log or your Xcode build files?
TextMate tries to read these massive files and your whole machine grinds to a halt. I finally got tired of this and figured out how to configure TextMate to automatically ignore these folders.
Go to TextMate’s Preferences -> Advanced -> Folder Pattern
Replace this default pattern:
!.*/(\.[^/]*|CVS|_darcs|_MTN|\{arch\}|blib|.*~\.nib|.*\.(framework|app|pbproj|pbxproj|xcode(proj)?|bundle))$
with this pattern that adds an exclusion for folders named ‘build’or ‘log’:
!.*/(\.[^/]*|CVS|_darcs|_MTN|\{arch\}|blib|.*~\.nib|.*\.(framework|app|pbproj|pbxproj|xcode(proj)?|bundle))|build|log$
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