Ack in project searches more than project
Reported by Bradley Wright | December 6th, 2008 @ 04:27 AM
If you use Ack in project to search a project, it actually searches the entire directory structure under the project's location (i.e a project located in ~ searches Applications, Library etc.). It should just be confined to the files in the project.
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Trevor Squires December 8th, 2008 @ 01:10 PM
- State changed from “new” to “hold”
Hi Bradley,
this is sort-of by design. The 'ack' command itself is geared to (by default) searching entire directory trees under your current location - something that works very well when you've got a project containing many hundreds of files.
It's probably possible for me to construct a list of files that are eligible for searching but it strikes me that it would be a) slower and b) require a lot of defensive effort to make sure I don't exceed OS limits on the length of an argument list when calling ack.
If you can find a way to support your requirement without significantly impacting the common case of "a .tmproj file in the root of a tree with a lot of files and directories" I'd definitely take a look at integrating it into the bundle.
Thanks, Trev
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Bradley Wright December 8th, 2008 @ 02:41 PM
Fair point, I understand it's an edge case and definitely not worth any kind of concerted effort. I was kinda hoping you'd have a quick solution. ;)
I'll take a deeper look into ack and TextMate and maybe comment back here if I can come up with something nifty.
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Ack Textmate Bundle
Bradley Wright
Trevor Squires