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+#
+# Boring file regular expressions
+#
+
+~$
+\#
+(^|/)\.DS_Store$
+(^|/)Thumbs\.db$
+(^|/)core(\.[0-9]+)?$
+\.(pyc|pyo|o|so|orig|rej|prof|bak|BAK|tmp|wpr|wpu|swp|swo|komodoproject)$
+
+(^|/)\.idea($|/)
+(^|/)\.komodotools($|/)
+(^|/)_darcs($|/)
+
+^MANIFEST$
+^config\.ini$
+^build($|/)
+^dist($|/)