How stop my IDE from showing hidden files on Sierra?

Question

I have disabled hidden files in the Finder on macOS Sierra, but they still show up in my text editors, such as Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text and PhpStorm.

I have already tried

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO
killall Finder

This works for the Finder but not for any text editor.

Answer 1

It's up to individual apps to decide whether to show hidden files and to provide options to change it.

• The ‘AppleShowAllFiles’ key is written to ‘com.apple.Finder’, so it only applies in Finder. Finder's GUI option for changing this setting is ⇧⌘..
• Other apps may have their own options, which you'll need to investigate on a per-app basis. For example, How do I hide certain files from the sidebar in Visual Studio Code?.