How do I filter problems by multiple criteria? AND or OR

Question

In the problems pane you can filter/exclude by text or file, but what if I want to filter by multiple criteria? Like filter messages for those that contain the text X OR Y (or X AND Y). I know you can filter for multiple types of files by using commas, is there a similar mechanism for text?

Answer 1

An extension I wrote, Problems: Copy allows you to filter text using a regex. So you could do something like this:

{
  "key": "alt+c",                      // whatever keybinding you want, no default
  "command": "problems-copy.copyAll",
  "args": {
    "errors": true,                   // will be included in the result
    "warnings": true,
    // "hints": true,          // any category not in the keybinding will NOT be in the result
    "informations": true,
    
    "messageFilter": "/const2|typeof/",   // wrapped in regex literals
  }
}

So that will copy problems with the word const2 or typeof. With the appropriate regex you should be able to construct the filter you want.

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This extension cannot actually filter the problems that appear in the Problems Panel - that functionality is not available in the extension api. With the extension you can copy/paste the filtered problems to another editor though (or spreadsheet, etc.).

Answer 2

As far as I can see, this is still not possible to do generically as of Oct 2022. This issue discusses the problem and links to more specific issues.

However, the , seems to be an OR operator. The filter below works for me for Python development. I want issues to be ignored for interactive (notebook) sessions as well as for a scratch.py file that I use to sketch out ideas before putting them in assets:

!scratch.py,!Interactive*

The PROBLEMS tab still shows the total count of "problems" (see 21 in the example below), but none of those problems are in files that I care about.