Bill Ricker

While we stand s(t)olidly on an assumption that `ack` is for source-code, and that any natural language use is "off label" use, since Perl and others permit Unicode (typically UTF-8)...

On Dec 1, 2017 2:59 PM, "Rob Hoelz" wrote: For example, something like ack -m one -m two would match all lines that contain "one" or "two" Prior work exists...

***Cookbook*** - not everything we've thought of for _Cookbook_ has been posted. The [Cookbook issue ticket](https://github.com/beyondgrep/website/issues/103) has lots more ideas. Yes, combining patterns with `|` gets you `OR` easily and...

`qr//` is compile time for RE things but not for `qq()` interpolation things, which are Perl language and effectively pre-processor for qr// compile. `\Q\E` kinda cross the streams because they...

OP Bob provides minimalist test case ``` $ perl -wE 'my $re = q!\Qfoo\E!; say "foo" =~ $re;' Unrecognized escape \Q passed through in regex; marked by

That the RE-special-char-understanding` \Q\E` escapes are being executed at the same Perl-lang compile (`eval ""` but not `eval {}` time) as `\L\F\U ` and not in RE-lang compile (`qr{}`) is...

> Arguably... Agreed, OS packages carving Perl (or C) standard distribution into more than one package has been an annoyance to developers since nearly forever. (And their answer is everyone...

Yeah. If only as a "Least Surprise" matter, I'd like to defensively fix this. Even though a Debian w/o perl-doc isn't a valid Perl according to Perl and thus "results...

For your context, @shadowcat-mst , **redoing install automation**, skipping `make && make test` and just installing the single-file `ack-standalone` as `bin/ack` is a portable alternative. Tradeoffs - usually works, doesn't...

(_**Speaking for myself, not for Ack ...**_ In general I don't consider it sound to mix package managers. I know MST already knows why, but for the record ... Using...