Bill Ricker

> What does "headless" mean? I've never heard that time before. non-interactive; unattended. (inclusive of, more general than, both "pure batch" and "daemons"; thus including `crontab` but also services built...

I support this feature request. (IDK how hard it would be to add and alas i don't currently have the TUITs (=spoons) to find out.) If performance testing shows that...

Today in Slack, Andy daydreamed > Today’s pipe-dream of ack switches: The `--inside-of-a-loop` option, as in `ack expensive_function --inside-of-a-loop` > I sometimes simulate this by doing something like `ack expensive_function...

@ambs , are Unicode word-breaks useful for parsing some **programming** languages? (Andy @petdance is adamant this is a programmer's search tool not a natural language search tool. Despite the rather...

> What other effects would it have? Well, it would requiring adjusting the running of many of the `t/` tests to avoid failure when run outside the EN.US & EN.UK...

since people _can_ use local accented characters in their Perl variable names, this is not strictly an NLP usecase, but applies to sourcecode as well. (OTOH they can also use...

``` if ( $opt{locale} ) { eval "use locale; 1;" } ``` I'm more confident of this working in Ack than in most programs, since our key REs are dynamically...

Unless matches in the auto-generated nonwrapped JSON are interesting, the _usual_ recommendation is to use affirmation or negative filetypes `--nojson` or `--cpp` . Where `--width=80` would really help is when...

For explicit reading here in situ - the 2. Stack-overflow reference in hftf's comment above has a **usable work-around** for characters of context for a long line: `ack -o '.{0,20}string.{0,20}'`...

RETRACTED ~~The reason there is no previous issue for `txt` as a new filetype for Ack 3.x is that it's been provided since beginning of `--type=`_type_ with old Ack1.x .~~...