ack 1.52 is out
Andy Lester
Despite showing up in the --help, the -A, -B and -C don't work yet.
Realistically, this should have been ack 1.51_02. :-)
xoxo,
Andy
1.52 Fri Dec 22 00:41:45 CST 2006
[FIXES]
In 1.51_01, I changed how we check the -B of a file, but it's
not reliable. Perl's -B operator acts differently if you call
-B $filename vs. -B $fh.
[ENHANCEMENTS]
I changed some internal code to figure out a file's extension.
By using my own, instead of File::Basename, I cut out over 50%
of the run time on my test of acking through a large tree.
When using -a, it's not necessary to determine the filetype
before searching, only if we should ignore the file or not.
This cut out an additional 10% or so of execution time when
doing -a searces.
[INTERNALS]
We no longer need to build a list of all used suffixes. This
makes startup quicker.
1.51_01 Mon Dec 18 12:59:28 CST 2006
Development version. I'm putting this out so hardcore ack users
can test out some new features.
[FIXES]
Tests now pass under Windows.
[FEATURES]
You can now set the colors for display with the ACK_COLOR_MATCH
and ACK_COLOR_FILENAME environment variables.
[ENHANCEMENTS]
ack-standalone now builds with a shebang line of "#!/usr/bin/env
perl", which is more compatible. Of course, you're welcome to
change it to whatever you like.
I now check for binaryness on the already-open file, rather
than reopening it from the filesystem. This gave me about a
1% speedup in my tests.
Started adding sanity checks to the options. For instance, it
doesn't make sense to use -l and -C together, so ack will
complain about that.
Added a --sort-files option.
[INTERNALS]
More testing on XML and PHP detection courtesy Bill Ricker.
Lots of refactoring of search() in preparation for showing
context around matches.