Manual says that The --text option has been removed.. It was setting the --type to text, i.e. ack was searching all text files regardless of their semantic category (i.e. in *.php files, *.txt files, *.cpp files, etc.). How to obtain this behavior in current version of ack?
How to search all text files in Ack? (with --text option being now removed)
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Use ack without a --type predicate:ack <search pattern>It ignores binary files and searches all textual files regardless of file type.