Unix ls command - How to Exclude Certain Patterns using Wildcard?

Let's say you have a directory where there are too many files/folders having similar names and you want to exclude them during an ls operation. The command to use is as follows:

ls --ignore="PATTERN*"

Below is an example where there are folders named run_* and other files. The results obtained after typing plain ls and with the exclude options are shown below:

With the option: (Note the usage of the wildcard)

Backspace not deleting to the left in Vi(m)

While working with vi(m), backspace may not perform as intended. It may print ^? and progress to the right. To alleviate that problem, simply add the following code into ~/.vimrc file:

:set t_kb=^?
:fixdel
:set bs=2 "Fix Backspace in VIM