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Changes for version 1.26 - 2006-08-24

  • ENHANCEMENTS
    • Added Haskell, HTML, elisp, lisp, OCaml, Ruby, Scheme, Template Toolkit, Vim.
    • Made the extensions system EVEN MORE EXTENSIBLE

Changes for version 1.25_03 - 2006-08-19

  • ENHANCEMENTS
    • Added --binary support.
    • Fixed docs for --[no]color. Thanks, Mark Stosberg.
    • Checks files with non-matching extensions for correct filetype. For example, a foo.cgi file will now be checked for a shebang line.

Changes for version 1.25_02 - 2006-08-17

  • THINGS THAT MIGHT BREAK YOUR CODE
    • Stopped supporting the --javascript option. I assume that everyone just uses --js. Tell me if I'm wrong.
  • FIXES
    • Fixed bugs in 1.25_01 where it wouldn't skip directories correctly, and wouldn't autodescend into the current directory.
  • ENHANCEMENTS
    • -o option now hanldes any given Perl expression for the output. Thanks to Leland Johnson for the idea.
    • Now supports --asm, and ignores SCCS directories.

Changes for version 1.25_01 - 2006-08-16

  • ENHANCEMENTS
    • Added .css support.
    • Added .yml as YAML
  • INTERNALS
    • Now uses File::Next as the file finder. Not surprisingly, File::Next was based on ack's file finder.

Documentation

ack
grep-like text finder for large trees of text

Modules

A container for functions for the ack program