On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Christopher Deluca < [email protected]> wrote:
> I have been using ack for a while and want to say great work all around. > Thank you ! Always nice to hear that. > I would like to float the possibility of adding TOML language support to > the filetypes ack supports. > https://github.com/toml-lang/toml > It's a possibility. Have you experimented with http://beyondgrep.com/documentation/ack-2.14-man.html#defining_your_own_types http://beyondgrep.com/documentation/ack-2.14-man.html#can_i_make_ack_recognize__xyz_files That's the first step (and perhaps sharing those ACKRC bits with other fans of TOML). Then reporting here what worked after you used your custom --type=toml for a while. > While maybe not as popular as YAML, it's got a strong following. > 120 contributors is a decent community for a file format. And nicely Polyglot portable. As a text config file format it is aimed at a code dev community and perhaps their command-line savviest users, so within our target space. Usage on CPAN is already non-zero https://metacpan.org/requires/distribution/TOML?sort=[[2,1]] so bears watching at a minimum. «TOML is designed to map unambiguously to a hash table. » > I like it already ! :-) In TOML format, you must make use of ack's -A7 and -C3 args, since we eschew multiline matches or paragrep mode? -- Bill Ricker [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ack users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/ack-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
