Hi, when I do SPC / to do smart search in my spacemacs it does search everywhere. That's all nice, but if I want to exclude for example resources not to include compiled cljs how do I achieve that? Basically I want to remove content of .gitignore from the search results. Any recommendations?

Check out https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile

I see you meant find-in-files, not find-file 😄. Look into https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep – that understands .gitignore, and I imagine Spacemacs will use it automatically if it’s installed

https://github.com/syohex/emacs-helm-ag works nicely

@piotr.kurnik using ripgrep or silver-searcher should respect your .gitignore. To exclude certain file patterns with SPC / you can also use -g! to exclude files or -g (although this may not work for all search tools). For example to exclude png images from a search, I would use -g!*.png at the start of the pattern and then a space followed by the term I was searching for.