[Feature request] Auto-detection of "Do not compile directly"

My usual workflow is to have a styles.scss that @includes my other scss files as modules. After I create a new scss file I have to go into the Web Workbench settings in order to turn off minification and compilation for this file. If I don't do this it will recompile everytime I save, which is not the behavior I'm looking for.

I'd like to have Web Workbench automatically tick this checkboxes off when it sees that I have included the file in my styles.scss.

It is something CodeKit for Mac does atm, which I'm really happy with - I'd really be thrilled to have this functionality in my Visual Studio environment aswell.

Thanks for a great product! You make frontend development in Visual Studio a bliss.

Cheers Emil.

Just to clarify what you are looking for - what would trigger this? Would it be us checking that a file matched a regex for example (e.g. styles.scss) or the fact that it is including other files?

Jeremy

I think a good way of doing this would be to check if a file is included in another file.

Another option could be to add the _ (underscore) prefix as Compass is using in their framework. All files that do not compile by themselves have the underscore prefix. An example file structure would look like this:

framework/ _mixins.scss _vars.scss _normalize.scss modules/ _mycomponent.scss _myothercomponent.scss _somerootlevelcomponent.scss print.scss styles.scss

in this example only print and styles.scss is compiled directly as default. The rest indicates by the prefixet _ that they are imports and might not work by itself.

The other way would be to check all scss files for @import rules and if a file is found in an @import rule it is not compiled directly unless specified manually in the Web Workbench config.

/Emil