ack 1.94 released
Version 1.94 of ack, my source code searcher designed for programmers, has been released. This is the first release in almost
a year.
You can install it as [App::Ack](http://search.cpan.org/dist/ack) from the CPAN shell, or you can use one of the installation methods described at [http://betterthangrep.com/](http://betterthangrep.com/)
Here are the changes.
## Fixes
--man and --version now return with an exit code of 0. They
used to exit with a 1. Thanks to Bo Borgerson.
Fixed ack misbehavior when using --match or not specifying a regex:
ack --match Sue
cat foo | ack --perl
Fixed issue 74: analog to grep, 'ack --count regex file' now
only outputs the number of found matches, if only one file is
given.
Fixed issue 76: Giving both --line and a regex (with --match)
now leads to an error. The same is true for -f or -g in conjunction
with --match. (Torsten Blix)
Fixed issue 80: Piping into ack --count now works as expected.
ack always returned 0 when piped into, no matter how many matches
where found. (Torsten Blix)
Fixed issue 81: .ackrc now ignores leading/trailing whitespace.
(Torsten Blix)
## File type updates
Added --verilog, --vhdl and --clojure.
Files that match *.mk and *.mak as well as GNUmakefile are now included in
the ack filetype 'make' (issue 88).
Added RSpec's .spec type to the --ruby list.
Added support for Go and Delphi.
Ignores Monotone's _MTN directories.
Added .xsl to the list of --xml files.
## Enhancements
The --ignore-dir option now can ignore entire paths relative
to your current directory. Thanks to Nick Hooey. For example:
ack --ignore-dir=t/subsystem/test-data
Added --invert-file-match switch to negate the sense of the
-g/-G switches. Thanks, Lars Dieckow.
Updated the README to Markdown format. Thanks to Mark Szymanski
for the idea.
Added docs for -r, -R, --recurse options.
Added new switch --color-lineno and environment variable `ACK_COLOR_LINENO`,
which allow setting the line number color. (Marq Schneider)
Added option --show-types to output the types that ack considers
a file to have. (Torsten Blix)
`ack --count --no-filename regex` doesn't output a list of numbers but a
sum of all occurences. This is NOT what grep does but is the more sensible
behavior.