is there a way to watch multiple file types with vscode.workspace.createFileSystemWatcher

Question

I'd like to be able to watch for multiple file types. **/*.spsrc and **/*.spinc do I have to watch for **/*.* instead and filter the extra notifications?

Answer 1

No, this can be done with a single watcher. Relevant section from the GlobPattern docs:

Glob patterns can have the following syntax:

[....]

• {} to group conditions (e.g. **​/*.{ts,js} matches all TypeScript and JavaScript files)

So for your example, that would look like this:

vscode.workspace.createFileSystemWatcher("**/*.{spsrc,spinc}");