--context and files with carriage returns

[epa]

If a file contains carriage returns but you are running on a Unix-like system, then ack --context can print its results in such a way that some lines become invisible.

% mkdir test
% cd test
% perl -E 'print "hello\r\n" foreach 1, 2' >out
% ack --context=1 hello
out
1:hello

% ack hello out
1:hello
2:hello

Observe that when --context is given, only the first match is visible on screen.

[petdance]

What does grep do in such a case?

[epa]

grep prints both lines. I think this is something to do with --color. If you give --no-color then the result is as expected.

[petdance]

We redid how colorzing works in ack 3. This works in ack 3. There will be no more releases of ack 2.