Support !directory to exclude a dir from consideration?

[mqudsi]

@BurntSushi Would you be open to having rg PATTERN !DIR [!DIR2 ..] be used to exclude a directory from consideration at the command line?

[BurntSushi]

No. I've never seen another tool do this, and I would prefer not to continue the spread of the use of ! in command line arguments.

[mqudsi]

Thanks for the quick reply. What about an option to exclude a path, then (without -g !) (a la many tools' -x PATH option)?

[BurntSushi]

@mqudsi Well, yes, I never would have used ! if it were simple to add a -G (negation of -g) flag. :-) That work is tracked in #809, and I believe it's now possible to implement given improvements in the latest release of clap (argv parser). I'll probably get around to it in the next release.

[mqudsi]

Thanks :)