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**ack 2 is no longer being maintained. ack 3 is the latest version.**
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Highlighting is incorrect with parentheses #615

Closed petdance closed 7 years ago

petdance commented 7 years ago 
$ cat foo
This is a test.
$ ack 'is a (t.+t)' foo
This is a test.

This highlights as "This is a test", which is incorrect. It should show "This is a test".

Related to #304

petdance commented 7 years ago

This is an intentional feature. It is removed in ack3.