1;;; ack.el --- Use ack where you might usually use grep.
3;; Copyright (C) 2008 Philip Jackson
5;; Author: Philip Jackson <phil@shellarchive.co.uk>
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27;; ack.el provides a simple compilation mode for the perl grep-a-like
28;; ack (http://petdance.com/ack/).
30;; If `ack-guess-type' is non-nil and `ack-mode-type-map' has a
31;; reasonable value then ack.el will try and guess what you would like
32;; in the --type argument for ack.
34;; To install/use put ack.el in your load-path and (require 'ack) in
35;; your initialisation file. You can then M-x ack and you're off.
39(defvar ack-guess-type nil
40 "Setting this value to `t' will have `ack' do its best to fill
41in the --type argument to the ack command")
43(defvar ack-command "ack --nocolor --nogroup"
44 "The command to be run by the ack function.")
46(defvar ack-mode-type-map
47 '(((c++-mode) . "cpp")
50 ((emacs-lisp-mode) . "elisp")
51 ((fortran-mode) . "fortran")
52 ((html-mode) . "html")
53 ((xml-mode nxml-mode) . "xml")
54 ((java-mode) . "java")
55 ((lisp-mode) . "lisp")
56 ((perl-mode cperl-mode) . "perl"))
57 "alist describing how to fill in the '--type=' argument to ack")
59(defun ack-find-type-for-mode ()
61 (dolist (mode-type ack-mode-type-map)
62 (when (member major-mode (car mode-type))
63 (throw 'found (cdr mode-type))))))
65(defun ack-build-command ()
66 (let ((type (ack-find-type-for-mode)))
68 (when (and ack-guess-type type)
69 (concat " --type=" type)) " -- ")))
71(define-compilation-mode ack-mode "Ack"
72 "Ack compilation mode."
76(defun ack (command-args)
78 (list (read-from-minibuffer "Run ack (like this): "
83 (compilation-start command-args 'ack-mode))