is there an option for the directory and HTML file created during a VSCODE preview to get automatically cleaned up

[atitusfwd]

Description

Hello, I am new to using Quarto. I'm using VSCode editor. When previewing files, it creates an HTML file as well as a directory, as part of the preview process. I have to remove these manually, otherwise they just remain there. This is especially inconvenient if I am editing files in a git repo, I do not want to have to manually clean up these intermediate files all the time.

[mcanouil]

Short answer: no because "preview" is "render + show the results" so they have to be there for you to see them.

• Add the files to .gitignore and use git to clean up the files not watched (git clean -fdX https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clean).
• Change the output-directory (if a project), see other GitHub discussions and the documentation on the matter.
• Write a script as a "task" for VSCode that does the clean up
• Write a script that you execute from the terminal
• etc.

[atitusfwd]

I was expecting something like this was the answer but I wanted to make sure I was not overlooking any option. The output directory sounds promising as well, I will search for this, thank you.