History file for ack 3. https://beyondgrep.com/ 2.999_05 Sun Oct 21 21:37:39 CDT 2018 ===================================== [ENHANCEMENTS] Add -p as a shorter version of --proximate. 2.999_04 Thu Sep 6 17:45:07 CDT 2018 ===================================== [ENHANCEMENTS] Added -P as a negation of --proximate. It is the same as --proximate=0. If you have --proximate in an .ackrc, -P can be used to cancel it. Added --ts for Typescript. 2.999_03 Fri Jan 19 11:02:46 CST 2018 ===================================== [ENHANCEMENTS] The check for whether we need to scan the entire file line-by-line now reads 10M of file instead of just 100K. Removed support for the ACK_OPTIONS environment variable. Use an ackrc file instead. If you have ACK_OPTIONS set, ack will give a warning. Lots of internal speedups. 2.999_02 Mon Jan 8 23:03:42 CST 2018 ===================================== [ENHANCEMENTS] Added an optimization to make ack only do a line-by-line search of a file if there's a match somewhere in the file. This gives ack a 20-30% in timings of common cases. 2.999_01 Mon Jan 1 22:11:17 CST 2018 ===================================== [ENHANCEMENTS] Added --pod as a filetype, recognizing .pod as its extension. This is Perl's POD (Plain Old Documentation) format. Added --markdown as a filetype, recognizing .md and .markdown as extensions. --pager is no longer allowed in a project .ackrc file. --match and --output are not allowed in any .ackrc file. ack 3's new features are listed below for now. [FIXES] --lines had some mutex options that were not getting checked. Now, --lines is mutex with --passthru, --match and all context options. ============================= # Release notes for ack 3.000 ============================= # New features ack 3 is a greplike tool optimized for searching large code trees. Improvements over ack 2 include: * Improved `-w` option. * `-w` option will warn if your pattern does not lend itself to word matching. * `-i`, `-I` and `--smart-case` * `--proximate=N` option * Added `--pod` and `--markdown`. * Added `GNUmakefile` to the list of makefile specs. * Added `-S` as a synonym for `--smart-case`. # Bug fixes * Column numbers were not getting colorized in the output. Added `--color-colno` option and `ACK_COLOR_COLNO` environment variable. * A pattern that wanted whitespace at the end could match the linefeed at the end of a line. This is no longer possible. # Incompatibilities with ack 2 ## ack 3 requires Perl 5.10.1 ack 2 only needed Perl 5.8.8. This shouldn't be a problem since 5.10.1 has been out since 2009. ## ack 3 no longer highlights capture groups. ack 2 would highlight your capture groups. For example, ack '(set|get)_foo_(name|id)' would highlight the `set` or `get`, and the `name` or `id`, but not the full `set_user_id` that was matched. This feature was too confusing and has been removed. Now, the entire matching string is highlighted. ## ack 3's --output allows fewer special variables In ack 2, you could put any kind of Perl code in the `--output` option and it would get `eval`uated at run time, which would let you do tricky stuff like this gem from Mark Fowler (http://www.perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-21.html): ack --output='$&: @{[ eval "use LWP::Simple; 1" && length LWP::Simple::get($&) ]} bytes' \ 'https?://\S+' list.txt http://google.com/: 19529 bytes http://metacpan.org/: 7560 bytes http://www.perladvent.org/: 5562 bytes This has been a security problem in the past, and so in ack 3 we no longer `eval` the contents of `--output`. You're now restricted to the following variables: `$1` thru `$9`, `$_`, `$.`, `$&`, ``$` ``, `$'` and `$+`. You can also embed `\t`, `\n` and `\r` , and `$f` as stand-in for `$filename` in `ack2 --output` .