How to exclude some directory during search(through ctrl+shift+f) in sublime 2?

Question

I want to exclude some directory like .venv/lib/python2.7/ from the search result during the search for specific keyword, I don't want the result which come from the above directory, Suppose I want to search keyword "subtitle", I will press ctrl+shift+f then in Find : field I will write subtitle, but in Where : what should write to exclude so that result does not come from the exclude directory. Let me more describe In sublimetext2 I have open horizon folder. This is my project

/opt/stack/horizon

but I want to exclude .venv Which is in following directory, you can check this is inside horizon folder

/opt/stack/horizon/.venv/

Answer 1

Write the path you want to search in, then add a list of folders to ignore like this :

/home/me/dev/project,-/home/me/dev/project/junkfolder/*,-/home/me/dev/project/var/log/*

Syntax is -path/to/ignore/*.