There’s a lot of different ways people are specifying the globs in rules, I’m wondering what is the official schema for them?
YAML Array
globs: ['src/**/*.ts', 'tests/**/*.ts']
or
globs:
- 'src/**/*.ts'
- 'tests/**/*.ts'
Single String w/ quotes
globs: 'src/**/*.ts, tests/**/*.ts'
Single string (no quotes)
globs: src/**/*.ts, tests/**/*.ts
I’m seeing lots of files with the last but I’m guessing the first format is the correct one?
Specifying this better would make a great addition to the docs.
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Yeah, that’s what I’m gathering but would be great for the Cursor team to put at least one example with the correct syntax in the docs.
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bmarker
(Bradley Marker)
5
It would also be nice if the supported glob patterns were clarified. For example, does *.?(m|c)ts?(x) work?
Support for ignore patterns would be very nice to have
KyleM
(Kyle)
8
please document the glob syntax. no spaces after commas for example is huge as the IDE has no visual indication of a space when editing a rule.
Space after comma:
No space after comma:
Also syntax support for groups, optional, negate, etc would be really nice. For example, /**/*.{j,t}s?(x) or /tests/**/*.{spec,test}.{js,ts}
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Cursor team, please include examples in the docs for glob patterns.
@deanrie any chance for this to get some highlight?
deanrie
(Dean Rie)
11
Hey, thanks, I’ll pass this to the team.
I can’t find documentation anywhere online for the globs format. This is super frustrating. Can we please get some documentation?
Same here — I can’t believe there’s no clear documentation on the exact syntax and format for glob rules in Cursor.
