option to specify includePaths for files

[Morriz]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It is now not possible to run cspell without specifying the patterns of files with the command. There is one workaround via excludePaths that has a large performance hit:

cspell '**/*' '**/.*'

And then excluding everything again, except the suspects:

  "ignorePaths": ["./**", "./.**/**", "!/.values/README.md"],

This results in only the README.md being spell checked. Great. Not performant though.

Describe the solution you'd like
add includePaths so that we don't have to specify any pattern and can just run cspell, which will find all it needs in it's config to operate on.

Additional context
When working with a lot of projects it becomes cumbersome to have to maintain configuration in multiple places. It is preferable to be able to just call a command without parameters, and copy over a file from another project and just edit that, instead of invocations.

[Jason3S]

I think this is a good idea. I'm thinking about the right way to do it.

• the globs listed on the command line are combined with the globs in the includePaths to determine the list of files to be checked.
• If no files are listed in either, then no files are checked and cspell will exit with code 1.

The setting controls the behavior of the cspell cli and not the cspell library.

[Jason3S]

@Morriz,

With version 5.3.0 it is possible to add a files section to a cspell.json.

{
    "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell/master/cspell.schema.json",
    "version": "0.2",
    "files": [
        "**/*",
        ".github/**/*"
    ]
}

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