On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:22:32 +0100 Enrico Tröger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:44:41 -0500, "Jeff Pohlmeyer" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Enrico Tröger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jeff Pohlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. ... > > 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. ... > > 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 _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
