beyondgrep/ack3

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ack is a grep-like search tool optimized for source code.

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Open beginner issues: 2
Indexed issues: 149

Dominant language: Perl
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Last GitHub push: Sep 6, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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Add --nosort Open

beyondgrep/ack3#403 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 6, 2026
t/ack-man.t and t/invalid-ackrc.t fail on FreeBSD Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

beyondgrep/ack3#401 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 10, 2026
Feature idea: Display count of files found Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

beyondgrep/ack3#398 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 23, 2026
UTF-8 files are not decoded before searching Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

beyondgrep/ack3#396 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 7, 2026
Please add a security policy Open

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beyondgrep/ack3#395 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 21, 2025
Catch when regexp matches empty string Open

feature

beyondgrep/ack3#382 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 23, 2024
Feature: help message: "exclude" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

beyondgrep/ack3#381 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 21, 2024
Add specific shell types Open

filetype

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#380 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 21, 2024
Add jinja2 filetype Open

filetype

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

beyondgrep/ack3#379 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 9, 2024
Strange behaviour when search string begins with + character Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

beyondgrep/ack3#378 · 11 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 3, 2024
Have a --noignore-file option Open

feature

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beyondgrep/ack3#373 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 1, 2023
Please support relative paths in --ignore-dir Open

feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#372 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 1, 2023
Add a -X that acts like -x but obeys the --type filters Open

feature

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beyondgrep/ack3#368 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 26, 2023
-x and --type=format options should be mutex Open

feature

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beyondgrep/ack3#367 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 16, 2023
Add field support (a la Perl) Open

feature

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beyondgrep/ack3#366 · 9 comments · Opened Jan 31, 2023
Add GN (Generate Ninja) filetype Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

beyondgrep/ack3#365 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 22, 2022
Request: --no-group-separator option Open

feature

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beyondgrep/ack3#363 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 11, 2022
Get a new test codebase for timings Open

internals optimization

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beyondgrep/ack3#361 · Opened Sep 11, 2022
Add an option to show first N lines (--head=N) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#359 · 21 comments · Opened Jun 14, 2022
Add .adoc to filetypes Open

filetype

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#354 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 23, 2022
Unicode troubles? Open

unicode

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beyondgrep/ack3#349 · 10 comments · Opened Dec 1, 2021
Feature suggestion: accept and ignore `-E` and `--extended-regexp` flags for `grep` compatibilty Open

feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

beyondgrep/ack3#345 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 15, 2021
Problem with '--color-match' when using '*' or '?' (asterisk or question mark) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#342 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 4, 2021
List::Util::max() called too early to check prototype Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#337 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 5, 2021
Unicode ligature pairs like "fi" and "ss" in a lookbehind, plus -i flag, throws a "Variable length lookbehind not implemented" error Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

beyondgrep/ack3#336 · 12 comments · Opened Mar 31, 2021
t/ack-pager.t fails on Cygwin Open

bug tests

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#335 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 26, 2021
Could ack speed up with a per-directory cache of some kind? Open

feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

beyondgrep/ack3#333 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 29, 2021
Does ack support bash/zsh/etc completion? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#332 · 8 comments · Opened Jan 26, 2021
Add `git ack` alias to docs somewhere Open

docs

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

beyondgrep/ack3#330 · 4 reactions · Opened Jan 2, 2021
Make --ignore-dir operate the entire path, not just relative Open

feature

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beyondgrep/ack3#329 · 18 comments · Opened Dec 30, 2020
ack get stucked with a nested regex Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#328 · 7 comments · Opened Nov 29, 2020
Feature Suggestion: Limit length of output line Open

feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

beyondgrep/ack3#325 · 11 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Nov 2, 2020
Allow regexes to support \Q (and friends) Open

feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#323 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 22, 2020
Should a file type filter like --test on the CLI override a previous --notest? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#321 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 9, 2020
--help-rgb-colors to Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#320 · Opened Sep 23, 2020
Help-Colors to suggest background experiments Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

beyondgrep/ack3#319 · Opened Sep 23, 2020
Feature Suggestion: ignore hard linked files by default Open

feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#314 · 17 comments · Opened Aug 12, 2020
Interval expressions should count characters, not UTF-8 bytes Open

unicode

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

beyondgrep/ack3#312 · Opened Jul 22, 2020
Supress printing of line numbers Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#311 · 20 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 7, 2020
git-ack Wrapper or alias for git-native subcommand use Open

feature

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beyondgrep/ack3#305 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 22, 2020
Allow ack to print paths relative to $PWD Open

feature

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beyondgrep/ack3#304 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 22, 2020
Add new type: QML Open

filetype

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#302 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 5, 2020
Create --lazarus and --pascal file types Open

filetype

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beyondgrep/ack3#300 · 8 comments · Opened Mar 6, 2020
t/ack-man.t, t/ack-x.t, t/invalid-ackrc.t: failures in 3 test files on OpenBSD-6.6 Open

bug tests

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#298 · 7 comments · Opened Feb 16, 2020
Optimize for finding a --range-end Open

feature

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beyondgrep/ack3#297 · Opened Feb 6, 2020
File /tmp/ABV34l3UWo is still readable despite our attempts to changes its permissions at t/ack-x.t line 79. Open

bug tests

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#296 · Opened Feb 5, 2020
Make ack expand globs on Windows Open

feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#295 · 5 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 29, 2020
Doesn't work without perl-doc package installed on Debian Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

beyondgrep/ack3#288 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 6, 2019
Normalize exit codes Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

beyondgrep/ack3#285 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 22, 2019
Possible regression: named capture groups in --output pattern Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

beyondgrep/ack3#284 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 13, 2019

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