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Rob Hoelz

Error with implied --filter

Right, I wasn't trying to call you out! I suppose I should've phrased that "if one does...". I wish we could make ack work better with scripts, but until we...

Arguments silently ignored in filter mode

@rdpate Thanks for all of the time and effort you've spent investigating this! I think @petdance and I are going to have a discussion involving the community on what the...

Make -x and --type mutually exclusive

@petdance Ditto for `--sort-files`

Add a timer so we can see what takes a long time to search

--ignore-case does not work for ą, ę, ś, ć, ń, ó, ł, ż, ź

Unicode isn't really supported in any way (yet); here's a page on plans for 2.1, for which we've been considering Unicode support: https://github.com/petdance/ack2/wiki/Plans-for-2.1

--ignore-case does not work for ą, ę, ś, ć, ń, ó, ł, ż, ź

@xtaran Hah, touché... Maybe we should start calling the next generation stuff 3.0?

--ignore-case does not work for ą, ę, ś, ć, ń, ó, ł, ż, ź

@qbolec Thanks for the suggestion; maybe we can roll that into 2.14.

--ignore-case does not work for ą, ę, ś, ć, ń, ó, ł, ż, ź

Setting up `PERL_UNICODE` made this work for me: ``` $ PERL_UNICODE=SAD ack '(?ui)ą' test.txt ą Ą ```

Add $_ and $. to list of variables you can use with --output

I'm not opposed to that, but how do we go about doing that?

Add $_ and $. to list of variables you can use with --output

That really limits what you can do with `--output`, though; for issue beyondgrep/ack2#345 I devised a hack that did something like `--output="@{chomp; [length() > 250 ? 'too long' : $_]"`,...