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author | Andrew Gallant <jamslam@gmail.com> | 2018-08-21 21:24:02 -0400 |
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committer | Andrew Gallant <jamslam@gmail.com> | 2018-08-21 23:05:52 -0400 |
commit | fcd185303198f9a6c8026e0a632c84bacf36e779 (patch) | |
tree | 30ad38e1468ff34cc4c82cb55d44748f302622e1 /src | |
parent | 74a89be64110a61972169c4a7f0e44ea2a43b4ec (diff) |
doc: update ripgrep's description
This now mentions PCRE2 support.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r-- | src/app.rs | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -13,12 +13,13 @@ use clap::{self, App, AppSettings}; const ABOUT: &str = " ripgrep (rg) recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern. -By default, ripgrep will respect your `.gitignore` and automatically skip -hidden files/directories and binary files. +By default, ripgrep will respect your .gitignore and automatically skip hidden +files/directories and binary files. -ripgrep's regex engine uses finite automata and guarantees linear time -searching. Because of this, features like backreferences and arbitrary -lookaround are not supported. +ripgrep's default regex engine uses finite automata and guarantees linear +time searching. Because of this, features like backreferences and arbitrary +look-around are not supported. However, if ripgrep is built with PCRE2, then +the --pcre2 flag can be used to enable backreferences and look-around. ripgrep supports configuration files. Set RIPGREP_CONFIG_PATH to a configuration file. The file can specify one shell argument per line. Lines |