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                                            Andy Lester

Add field support (a la Perl)

I can certainly imagine use cases, but I'm asking what @tnelson-doghouse 's use case is that brought it up.

Add field support (a la Perl)

So it sounds like you're not using the acky things that make ack ack, like all the pretty color coding. If I'm understanding right, your suggested ack --field 2 tnelson...

Add field support (a la Perl)

I'm not really interested in doing this, but I'm not saying no yet.

Please support relative paths in --ignore-dir

Filetype request: .txt filetype

I can't add a text filetype. There's no way that it could be meaningful. Someone else would think that text would include any number of things. Sorry, it just doesn't...

Add a -X that acts like -x but obeys the --type filters

What does "independent of -x" mean? Which behavior is also confusing on the command line? Which way it can be embedded in ackrc?

-x and --type=format options should be mutex

> ack -f | ack -x --type=json foo # doesn't work today :( Please, don't conflate "doesn't work" with "doesn't do what I want it to do." ack -x works...

-x and --type=format options should be mutex

I've added a new ticket #368 for discussing a new flag that could act like `-x` but obey the type filters.

Make Variables::ProhibitPackageVars be nicer with Locale::Maketext

Can you add some sample code so I can get a better idea?

Make Variables::ProhibitPackageVars be nicer with Locale::Maketext

Do you have a real concrete example from something you're working on that you can post? And then include the errors you get from Perl::Critic, and what specifically you'd want...