exclude_patterns

[chipbrock]

I'm moving a large Bookdown project into Jupyter books and so I'm looking for like-minded tools. One is the ability to work on one file at a time in a multi-file textbook. My understanding is that to do this in jupyter-books is to add to the _config.yml:

execute:
execute_notebooks: auto
exclude_patterns: [randomly/*]

because I have markdown files inside of the directory `randomly' and I would like to ignore execution of all of them. This doesn't work...all are executed anyway.

If I do

execute:
execute_notebooks: auto
exclude_patterns: [randomly/content]

as a test to ignore one of the files called content it still executes and renders that file also.

clearly I'm not getting something here and I'd appreciate advice. (in bookdown... it's command-K on a mac to just process the open file).

Thanks.

[choldgraf]

hmm - could you go into the use-case you're shooting for a bit more? You should be able to only edit a single file, re-build the book, and only that file will re-build. But it sounds like all of them are rebuilding for you regardless?

[chipbrock]

Yes, that's exactly the case. Those lines in the _config yaml file I believe worked for me before, but then I went through the confusion with Jupyter book upgrade and the _toc problem. Now it's ignored and all files are executed in the /randomly/ directory. This is a Sphinx thing, right? Could I have some version mixup there?

Thanks for your help.