On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:41:07 -0500 Andy Lester <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sep 27, 2016, at 10:01 AM, David Cantrell > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I want ~/foo/bar/baz to never get searched, no matter where I am > > when I invoke ack - whether I'm in the home dir, or in ~/foo - but > > I do want to search in ~/baz when I'm in the home dir. So my idea > > was that when ack recurses into a directory it would look for > > a .ackrc file and obey it only in that directory and its sub-dirs. > > Something like '--ignore-dir=baz' in ~/foo/bar/.ackrc would do what > > I want in that case. > > > I see where you’re going for, and at this point I don’t want to > change the behavior of how ack hunts for .ackrc files. If you’d like > to submit this is as a feature request to the ack2 queue on GitHub, > maybe others will chime in. Maybe it’s something a lot of people > want. > > One thing you might try as a workaround is setting the ACKRC > environment variable. > > -- > Andy Lester => www.petdance.com > Possibly related existing issues: https://github.com/petdance/ack2/issues/479 https://github.com/petdance/ack2/issues/273 -- 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.
