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ack-1.77_03
River stage two • 24 direct dependents • 28 total dependents
131 ++

Changes for version 1.77_03 - 2008-02-20

  • CHANGED FUNCTIONALITY
    • ack -i -g=regex no longer treats the regex as case-insensitive. This was changed for added consistency. Now -i, -w, -v and -Q only apply to normal ack PATTERN while -g and -G are not affected by these regex modifiers at all.
  • ENHANCEMENTS
    • Added option -G REGEX to search only files whose path+filename matches REGEX. Thanks go to Michael Hendricks for providing a patch!
    • Added option --[no]env to ignore all environment settings including .ackrc.
    • Added a --[no]ignore-dir option, to include/exclude additional directories. Many thanks for this patch go to Matthew Wickline!
    • Added option --match REGEX to specify a regex explicitly.
  • FIXES
    • Fixed bug with -v not finding all files correctly (introduced with the performance optimizations in ack 1.75)
    • Removed spurious new line after last match in --group output.
    • Fixed typos in docs concerning context matching and removed option --rc from docs, since it was never implemented.
  • INTERNALS
    • Fixed some cross-platform issues in the test cases.
    • Fixed test in run_ack for stderr output. This should no longer report unexpected succeeds for TODO tests.

Changes for version 1.77_02 - 2008-01-28

  • ENHANCEMENTS
    • Added .lsp for --lisp, .st for --smalltalk.
    • Added testing for spurious output in the test suite.

Changes for version 1.77_01 - 2008-01-27

  • CHANGED FUNCTIONALITY
    • ack now always searches files given on the command line, even if they are of the wrong type or not recognized or normally skipped.
    • .bak files are now automatically skipped. I don't know how I missed this before.
  • FIXES
    • Added a test for the Perl 5.10 regex bug fixed in 1.76.
    • Made the regex for --thppptttt a little more robust. It used to have to end with a single "t", but now it's more flexible.
    • Changed year in copyright note to 2008.
    • Updated references in README (removed link to CPAN RT Queue).
    • Fixed a problem with files with non-native line-ending (DOS or MacOS on Unix). Instead of the matching line an empty line was output. This was reported by multiple people, thanks!
    • Rewrote a test to work around a bug in old versions of Test::More (before 0.48_2).
    • Fixed ack failure when encountering unreadable files. Reported by David Dyck, thank you!
  • ENHANCEMENTS
    • Ack warns now when the files/directories given on the command line don't exist.
    • Finally ack allows you to define your own types! See options --type-set and --type-add. There are some restrictions left, but it should suffice for most things.

Documentation

ack
grep-like text finder
ack
grep-like text finder

Modules

App::Ack
A container for functions for the ack program

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