Best "nav" plugin but Please have Regex/Glob patterns to specify files !

TL;DR

Best nav plugin, though it’s missing ability to specify files with Regex OR Glob pattern.

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Everything is just beautiful. One thing though I noticed is it’s missing the ability to specify which files to place under a specific section using a regex or glob patterns.

So like the “…” just places anything that hasn’t been specified:

nav:
    - section
        - ...

… which is very useful ! But also what would be useful is if you could place specific files under a section based on a regular expression or glob pattern:

nav:
    - Math:
        - 'Math Notes - .+\.md'
        - 'Math Notes - *.md'
    - Physics:
        - 'Physics Notes - .+\.md'
        - 'Physics Notes - *.md'
    - Exams:
        - '**/* Exam - *.md'

Either Regex or Glob patterns, if you can do both even better. I’m not too familiar with what’s possible but just an idea: maybe to differentiate what’s a regular, regex or glob string, you could do kinda like the python format string and have: nothing/ ‘r’ / ‘g’ preprend the string respectively:

nav:
    - Math:
        - 'Math Notes - Calculus.md'
        - r'Math Notes - .+\.md'
        - g'Math Notes - *.md'

Probably just getting ahead of myself. But you get the idea. I think the mkdocs-exclude has an implementation of regex/glob patterns.

If you could make that happen that would be amazing ! And make this the most complete “nav” plugin. Thanks in advance. Very grateful for your plugin. 🎩 s off brother.

[lukasgeiter]

I’ve just released version 2.5.0 with this feature. The syntax I settled on is ... | foo-*.md (or ... | glob=foo-*.md) for glob patterns and ... | regex=foo-[0-9]+.md for regex. You can find all details in the updated README.

[ojacques]

@lukasgeiter - I just wanted to send over a million thanks 🙏🙏🙏 for this feature.

This allows for example to hide specific files from the navigation:

nav:
    # Show everything except template<something> files
    - ... | regex=^(?!template).*$

I do have template.md files which I don’t want to show in navigation, but still want to generate and refer to. Perfect!