| Subject: | Need an .ackrc or alternative |
I recently spent a lot of time tracking down a bug because I was using
ack to search for a subroutine which it was telling me didn't exist.
Finally I realized that the Perl code I was searching for had a
non-standard extension.
It would be nice to have an .ackrc which allows us to specify extra
extensions for a particular file type and, if the filetype is not found,
define custom extensions ('j2ee' and 'prolog' both come to mind).
I've had to hack my local copy of App::Ack to get around this
limitation, but if I update it, I'm out of luck.
Cheers,
Ovid