How to make mercurial ignore all hidden files?

Question

I hate seeing nearly every directory in my repository list each file twice, once with a dot in front of it and once without. I tried adding .* to my .hgignore file,

Answer 1

I use this in my .hgignore:

syntax: regexp

# dotfiles
(?

Which reads: periods not preceded by something other than a forward slash.

Ry4an's solution is also good, I've used that one before too. Not sure which is more efficient.

https://regex101.com/r/dB4bW7/1