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                                            Andy Lester

Make --ignore-dir operate the entire path, not just relative

Thing is that there can be multiple .ackrc files. And even if there's only one, there's no rule that says it has to be in the root of the project....

redirect ack output into a file results in non-printable characters appearing in the output file

How are you calling ack? Please give an exact command line you're using. Also, do you have an .ackrc file somewhere? Chances are, you're adding `--color` to the command line...

redirect ack output into a file results in non-printable characters appearing in the output file

If you add the `--color` option, then you will get color codes in your output, even if you are redirecting to a file. By default, ack will output color codes...

redirect ack output into a file results in non-printable characters appearing in the output file

Yes, --no-color works as well.

List::Util::max() called too early to check prototype

I'm not able to reproduce this myself, so we'll have to do a little bit of digging. First, I'm also not on Windows. It's also strange that the line 276,...

List::Util::max() called too early to check prototype

Yes, I don't want to just switch the `require` to `use`, but as OP mentioned in his initial email to me, he doesn't really know Perl so I didn't want...

List::Util::max() called too early to check prototype

Bump. This would be nice to close if it's something I can easily address.

Problem with '--color-match' when using '*' or '?' (asterisk or question mark)

Let's simplify this a bit: ``` $ ack 's*' test.txt 1 file found? 2 files found? 24 files found? No files found. ``` None of the results lines are colored....

Add grep-like -f option to read pattern from a file

Say more about how you would use this. What's the use case for reading the pattern from a file? What are you doing now to achieve this functionality?

Add grep-like -f option to read pattern from a file

Is this something you'd be using from a script, or as part of an interactive session? Would `ack --pattern-from-file patterns.txt` basically do an OR for all the patterns that it...