How to ignore certain LESS files in Web Essentials LESS compiling? (Bootstrap)

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Acrotygma picture Acrotygma · Oct 6, 2013 · Viewed 8.6k times · Source

I've set up Web Essentials 2013 (in Visual Studio 2012) and loaded in the default Twitter Bootstrap LESS source files. Auto-build and minification is working perfectly, except Web Essentials quite overdoes the job. When I select "bootstrap.less", make a change and save it, Web Essentials creates a new "bootstrap.css" as well as a "bootstrap.min.css" with everything inside I need. But when I edit e.g. buttons.less, it creates a buttons.css (and buttons.min.css) too (with all the includes and mixins). Which means, in fact, I'll have nearly the same css files over and over again under different names.

Can I declare certain files to be ignored on save?

Answer

corvuscorax picture corvuscorax · Apr 12, 2014

There is a convention in Web Essentials that if the name of your less file starts with an underscore (like _utils.less) it will not be compiled to css on save.

https://webessentials.uservoice.com/forums/140520-general/suggestions/3319359-don-t-compile-nested-less-files

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