FEATURE: non-git ignore files

[CosmicToast]

Did you check the docs?

• I have read all the docs.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

While it's nice to have gitignore support, there's no support for gitignore-style ignore files, which are present in the wild.
These range from .ignore, to .fdignore, .rgignore and so on.

Describe the solution you'd like.

I would like neotree to automatically ignore patterns specified in .neotreeignore and .ignore, as it does for .gitignore.
I'd also like the list of ignore filenames to be configurable, i.e. the default is {'.neotreeignore', '.ignore'}, but the default can be changed.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

The current expected way to handle this are global ignore rules and (to a lesser extent) nesting rules.
These are not per-directory, and therefore don't offer the same type of flexibility.

Furthermore, most of my use-cases outside of gitignore are indeed outside of git directories.
Since the neotree support depends on git check-ignore, it does not work outside of git repositories.

Additional Context

As an example, I ported my neovim config to fennel using nfnl. As such, I'd like to ignore .lua files in my neovim config dir.
However, I cannot do this in a satisfactory and cross-platform way. With this feature I would simply have a .ignore containing *.lua in the root of the config dir.
If I needed to have some lua file not get ignored, I could add a ! pattern for that file.

I did a quick look and I didn't find any properly compliant gitignore implementations in lua, so I'll probably write one shortly.
Once it's ready I'll mention it in this issue, but if you have alternative ideas do let me know :)

[NullVoxPopuli]

A neotreeignore file would be amazing.

I've been working with tree-sitter grammars recently, and most of the repos are generated, and I want to hide all that from my file browser -- they can't be gitignored due to tree-sitter wanting to integrate with 5+ different language ecosystems, and I've been told to "just accept it" 🙈 (which is fine, I guess, just feels messy and overwhelming) -- so, if there was a way to configure a way to just hide all those files from neotree (leaving basically just a few things) -- that'd be great -- I know this can be configured in my neovim config, but I'd like to have it checked in to my repo, so that other folks can also have those hidden files.

(I also need to find a config for vscode that does this same behavior)

[Lamby777]

this is important for godot users too, as it now generates a bunch of .uid files you can't gitignore (they're to keep track of files so you can move them outside the editor)

[gjtiquia]

would love this as well, especially for Unity development as each .cs file has a corresponding .cs.meta file which clutters up the file tree

it would be nice to see only the .cs files and ignore all the .cs.meta files as they are auto-generated anyways

also would be nice to see this on a per-project level config instead of a global config

my current workaround is to use the global config to ignore all *.meta files

[MaiLunJiye]

In large projects, users typically only focus on a few specific directories. It would be beneficial to support reading project-specific ignore files (similar to .rgignore) to exclude or lazily load certain directories. Additionally, a caching mechanism is desired, as there is noticeable lag when expanding directory listings in large projects.

[KN13KOMETA]

Yeah, having .neotreeignore would be very nice.

Also @NullVoxPopuli you can hide files in vscode with files.exclude in global config, or per-folder by creating .vscode/settings.json.

{
  "files.exclude": {
    "README.md": true,
    "cmake/**": true,
  }
}