Hey Eric,
ack is written purely in Perl, and takes advantage of
the power of Perl's regular expressions
I am using Ruby, not Perl.
If I would use ack, in perl, then I could use grep, in C,
which is the same difference - both is not Ruby.
The reason I need it, in ruby, is because I want to connect
it to my pseudo-shell which is written in pure Ruby right now.
On Linux this may be irrelevant but my pseudo-shell shall
work on Windows too without any further downloads.
There's rak [1], although I don't know exactly what kind
of colour support you need.
Basically just ANSI Colour code.
You know, the classical XTERM escape codes:
BLACK = "\e[0;30m"
RED = "\e[0;31m"
If you use ruby 1.9, you may want to apply the
patch described in the pull request in rak's
github page. Without it, it'll stop at the
first non-ASCII character it finds.
Ok thanks! I checked it out, it looks really neat so far.
Also uses colours.
I think it is 98% what I am looking for ... I will play
with it intensively.
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