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For various reasons, I've configured my linux system with `nosmt` on the kernel commandline. ``` $ taskset -p 1 pid 1's current affinity mask: 5555 ``` Because of how Linux...

I want to use ag in my code: step 1. write text content into a pipe, and then assign this pipe to ag shell task's standard input step2. run shell...

I've only recently realised that my version of ag, 2.2.0, was released over 3 years ago. I think that's a solid testament to its reliability! However, I've come up against...

Discovered this because I have a gitignore in a golang project which excludes `/src/*` but commits `/src/xantoria.com/*`, like this: ``` (gnotif→) gnotify (master) $ cat .gitignore .* !/.gitignore *.swp *.swo...

Would be nice if I could set $PAGER and it would auto page, rather than having to use `--pager` Cheers, Neil

I sometimes want to put the output of ag into a pager for easier consumption e.g. `ag term | less`, however ag then detects it is writing into a pipe...

*ag* is said to prefer `.ignore` files (#974), while in reality `~/.ignore` is, well, ignored: ``` % ls file.txt image.png log.log % ag -l ./ file.txt log.log % echo '*.log'...

Please support an XDG location for `.agignore` like [Git does](https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/dir.c#L2238) for its `.gitignore`. #### Benefits - No need for symlinks when maintaining dotfiles - No need for an alias -...

Take this simple file "test.txt" : 1 file found? 2 files found? 24 files found? No files found. And this simple query : # ag --color-match '1;38;5;196;48;5;227' 's ' test.txt...

Add support for reading a user-level ignore file from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, if it is set. If it is not set, falls back to $HOME/.agignore, as previously. Fixes #1020