Rob Hoelz

Seeing as this is a problem we can't really solve, I would like to close this issue. Any objections, @Smylers?

@smylers I would be happy to merge such a patch =) regarding the wording about interpolation, you might want to mention that --pager is evaluated by the shell, so that...

`--text` and `--binary` are gone.

@andrewblack Those are the only filters built into ack right now, so those are the only ones that need testing!

There are some new tests for this, but it could probably use some improvement.

One test that needs adding is making sure `--ignore-dir=foo --ignore-dir=bar --noignore-dir=bar` behaves correctly when `foo/bar` is encountered (it should search files under `foo/bar`)

@rdpate Thanks for the bug report! This is definitely weird; can you give the "in the wild" example of how you encountered this? I'm wondering if we need to address...

I would definitely expect `ack` to do the right thing in the case of `

@petdance That's the thing; in the "real world" use case above, I don't know why ack is getting data on STDIN, and to me it'd be the principle of least...

I think that if you do the following: ``` cat /dev/null | ack -f ``` You're asking for trouble. But if you're putting `ack -f` in a script, or you're...