Bug #58178 for ack: missing file extensions for doom3

Sun Jun 06 14:00:54 2010 TELS [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

missing file extensions for doom3

The --doom3/--nodoom3 switch is missing some file extensions: * .ase: ASE files are text files that describe 3D models in game (think of vases, columns, carts, carrots etc). Having them in that list would be very helpful as a default. * .cm: CM files are textfiles describing collision models. * .fx: FX files are "effect" files, textfiles describing combinations of sounds, animations and particles. We have a lot of these files in our repository for The Dark Mod, and having ack skippig over them is quite cumbersome, because you need either use "--all" (and live with the fact that it also searches binary files), or a combination of "--all" and "-G", which is also cumbersome to type, or you miss them when searching. So please consider adding them as defaults. Thanx for the really great work on ack, it rules!

Sun Jun 06 16:55:35 2010 PETDANCE [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Please see the FAQ about "How do I get an extension added to ack." Also, this is not the ack bug queue.

Sun Jun 06 16:55:36 2010 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Sun Jun 06 16:55:36 2010 PETDANCE [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'

Mon Jun 07 15:05:49 2010 nospam-abuse [...] bloodgate.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #58178] missing file extensions for doom3
Date:	Mon, 7 Jun 2010 21:05:33 +0200
To:	bug-ack [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Tels <nospam-abuse [...] bloodgate.com>

On Sunday 06 June 2010 22:55:36 you wrote: Show quoted text

> <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58178 > > > Please see the FAQ about "How do I get an extension added to ack."

It would have been helpful to link to the FAQ, because I couldn't find it on cpan, nor in the help page nor in the README. And googling for the phrase "How do I get an extension added to ack." with or without quoted did not seem to give any relevant links at all. So where is the FAQ? :) Show quoted text

> Also, this is not the ack bug queue.

rt.cpan.org is the main bugtracker for all perl modules and I do have an account there, compared to the one that is mentioned on the ack bug queue page (was that google? I don't have a google account) nor the one mentioned someplace else (something with git? I don't have it either nor an account there either). So all in all a lot of wasted time on both sides and the extension is still not added :) In any event, I have spent enough time on this already, it would have been faster to create a local patch which just adds the extensions... all the best, tels

Mon Jun 07 15:05:52 2010 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'rejected' to 'open'

Mon Jun 07 15:08:49 2010 andy [...] petdance.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #58178] missing file extensions for doom3
Date:	Mon, 7 Jun 2010 14:08:40 -0500
To:	bug-ack [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Andy Lester <andy [...] petdance.com>

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> > It would have been helpful to link to the FAQ, because I couldn't find it on > cpan, nor in the help page nor in the README. And googling for the phrase > "How do I get an extension added to ack." with or without quoted did not > seem to give any relevant links at all. So where is the FAQ? :)

Bottom of the man page. Show quoted text

> rt.cpan.org is the main bugtracker for all perl modules

Doesn't matter. I can't handle the spam, and there are better choices, so I've stopped using it. Show quoted text

> In any event, I have spent enough time on this already, it would have been > faster to create a local patch which just adds the extensions...

Or use the --type-add flag into your ~/.ackrc. -- Andy Lester => andy@petdance.com => www.theworkinggeek.com => AIM:petdance

Mon Jun 07 15:29:13 2010 nospam-abuse [...] bloodgate.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #58178] missing file extensions for doom3
Date:	Mon, 7 Jun 2010 21:29:02 +0200
To:	bug-ack [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Tels <nospam-abuse [...] bloodgate.com>

On Monday 07 June 2010 21:08:50 you wrote: Show quoted text

> <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58178 > >

> > It would have been helpful to link to the FAQ, because I couldn't find > > it on cpan, nor in the help page nor in the README. And googling for > > the phrase "How do I get an extension added to ack." with or without > > quoted did not seem to give any relevant links at all. So where is the > > FAQ? :)

> > Bottom of the man page.

Er, not in the man page accessible via "man ack", it contains here a list with links at the bottom and none of them has a link to the FAQ. After noticing I had only ack 1.84 on my laptop (which I mainly use to email), I installed v1.92, but it doesn't have a FAQ link in the man page, either. It only contains a bit more info: All enhancement requests MUST first be posted to the ack-users mailing list at <http://groups.google.com/group/ack-users>. I will not consider a request without it first getting seen by other ack users. This includes requests for new filetypes. There is a list of enhancements I want to make to ack in the ack issues list at Github: <http://github.com/petdance/ack/issues> Which might be the "FAQ", or not, I have no idea. Anyway, I am certainly not creating a google account just for that. Show quoted text

> > rt.cpan.org is the main bugtracker for all perl modules

> > Doesn't matter. I can't handle the spam, and there are better choices, > so I've stopped using it.

A pity (but the spam certainly is annoying) Show quoted text

> > In any event, I have spent enough time on this already, it would have > > been faster to create a local patch which just adds the extensions...

> > Or use the --type-add flag into your ~/.ackrc.

Will do this and pass the trick along. Thanx!

Mon Oct 03 13:23:25 2011 PETDANCE [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Bug #58178 for ack: missing file extensions for doom3

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