On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:22:32 +0100 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:44:41 -0500, "Jeff Pohlmeyer" yetanothergeek@gmail.com wrote:
Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
Jeff Pohlmeyer yetanothergeek@gmail.com wrote:
I just now stumbled across this: http://www.petdance.com/ack/ I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like it could be the right tool for the job.
Looks good. I'll use it when I'm at the command-line, I don't like having to type --color every time with grep.
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Looks like I spoke too soon, sorry. Although it does look like a handy tool for searching from the command line, the output format doesn't really fit very well with Geany's find in files output. (Someone who knows Perl could probably make it work quite easily.)
Its output can be trimmed to be like grep's, ack --nocolor --nogroup is a good start. Anyway. the FIF dialog is pretty much tuned for grep and I don't think we really should change this. IMO the current state is sufficient.
I think if someone wants to write a patch to make the -nHIF flags a hidden pref this would be OK.
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But it does bring up the idea for some sort of tool to allow for more fine-grained search options, maybe a plugin or simply a program (or wrapper) to use instead of grep.
Sounds like an ideal idea for a plugin - yet another, super-featured and super-easy to use grep frontend ;-).
Probably all of FIF could be moved into a plugin, it's quite self-contained (after adding the necessary message window functions).
Regards, Nick