Open markstos opened 2 years ago
Is this just for your fingers, or are you writing scripts that use -E
and you'd like ack -E
to work?
If it's just your fingers, then is --extended-regexp
actually something that gets used?
Hi Andy!
It's just for my fingers, and I never type --extended-regexp
. My brain thinks "Oh, I want to use the pipe symbol, I better add -E
".
BTW, I tried ag
and rg
and ran into problems. ack
works great!
I ran into a bug with ag
where it missed a 100 matches and it wasn't clear why (!!). https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/issues/553#issuecomment-597188381
Maybe the problem with Ripgrep was that compiling with PCRE was optional, so that I couldn't actually rely on Perl regex's to work reliably with it.
I have to switch back and forth between
ack
on my latop and lots of services that only havegrep
. Compatibility withgrep
is a valued feature.So it would be welcome of
ack
accepted the-E
and--extended-regexp
flags and ignored them (while possibly issuing a warning that they don't anything). Sinceack
has regex's enabled by default, essentially the-E
flag is "working" by just ignoring it.Thanks!