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Feature suggestion: accept and ignore -E
and --extended-regexp
flags for grep
compatibilty
#345
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Is this just for your fingers, or are you writing scripts that use If it's just your fingers, then is |
Hi Andy! It's just for my fingers, and I never type |
BTW, I tried I ran into a bug with Maybe the problem with Ripgrep was that compiling with PCRE was optional, so that I couldn't actually rely on Perl regex's to work reliably with it. |
I have to switch back and forth between
ack
on my latop and lots of services that only havegrep
. Compatibility withgrep
is a valued feature.So it would be welcome of
ack
accepted the-E
and--extended-regexp
flags and ignored them (while possibly issuing a warning that they don't anything). Sinceack
has regex's enabled by default, essentially the-E
flag is "working" by just ignoring it.Thanks!
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