customise search locations

Hello Don,

Yes. In Settings | Project Structure, you can mark these directories as excluded.
This will also hide them from other IDEA features (like resolve and completion).

When I press (Ctrl + N) or (Ctrl + Shift + N) in IDEA and type
something, the IDE searches for classes or files that match the
entered text. By default it seems to search all files in the current
module.

I would like to permanently exclude certain dirs from this search,
such that files in those dirs are never shown, is this possible?

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