Colorizing by filetype

[Andy Lester]

Dear #ack users, 

What do you think of a feature where you could tell ack to display different filenames according to filetype, similar to how ls supports LS_COLORS? Maybe you would want Rust files to be brownish, and PHP are "blink bold red on_yellow", etc. Would you use it?

Thanks,

Andy & Bill

[A.J. Bonnema]

I would only use it if the text would be illegible if I don't. Usually I am pretty happy with the default. On the other hand, it couldn't hurt if it was configurable.

Kind regards, Guus.

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 01:46:18PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote:
> Dear #ack <https://twitter.com/hashtag/ack?src=hash> users,

>
> What do you think of a feature where you could tell ack to display different filenames according to filetype, similar to how ls supports LS_COLORS? Maybe you would want Rust files to be brownish, and PHP are "blink bold red on_yellow", etc. Would you use it?

Yes, I think I would. Different colours for code and test and
documentation files, for example.

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