Feature: sticky file-search-regex

[danielb2]

One if the things that makes me going back to use ack is the ability to group files by type.

For example: ack --ruby pattern

It would be nice if I were able to define my own file extensions to be able to search for so I don't have to keep using --file-search-regex to define a pattern each time.

I'm thinking something for example in .agrc

[file-search-regex:ruby]
( *.erb | *.rb )

ag --scan=ruby pattern

btw, I couldn't figure out the syntax for file-search-regex so sorry if that's wrong. Maybe an example in the manpage would help? And instead of .agignore you could use an [ignore] section of the config file

[ggreer]

This is pretty much a duplicate of #128. I don't know if/when I'll ever get around to it.

[silouanwright]

That's fine, but maybe you can mention in the docs that this doesn't support the full feature set of ack? When I first tried this out, it was billed as a replacement, and I spent a very long time trying to find the documentation for finding files by type, only to find it didn't exist and that the_silver_searcher isn't so much similar to ack as it is just a super fast global text search.

[danielb2]

👍

I too spent time wading through docs to find references to this.