Hide files/folders on my search but not in my side bar

Question

I'm using sublime text 3 and I want to exclude files/directories but not in my sidebar.

For example...

I have those files:

1. /doc/blabla/event.rb with the text some content in it.
2. /app/event.rb with the text other content in it.

So, with Ctrl + P (find files) and writing "event" I want to see only /app/event.rb.

and, with Ctrl + Shift + F (find in all files) and writing "content" I want to see results, again, only for /app/event.rb

I configure sublime with this values into my Preferences.sublime-settings:

"folder_exclude_patterns": ["doc"],

this works beautifully but, it hides doc directory from sidebar too. I don't want this behavior. I only want to hide files from my search

Answer 1

For me, using Sublime 3 build 3083 binary_file_patterns was not working while I had the setting in the project.sublime-project file. Once I moved it to my Preferences.sublime-settings and added an '*' to the search it started excluding the folder from search results while leaving it in the sidebar. My Preferences.sublime-settings looks like so:

"binary_file_patterns":
    [
    "public/bower_components/*",
    "public/javascripts/vendor/*",
    "public-built/*"
    ],

and it works beautifully for me in sublime 3.

Also talked about in this post: http://blog.lysender.com/2014/08/sublime-text-exclude-files-or-directories-from-go-to-anything-feature/