petdance/ack — Issue #204: type-set=tags=TAGS (filename, not a filename extension)
Author: PhilHudson
Created: 2011-12-18 16:07:05+00:00
State: open

If I put in my .ackrc the line:

type-set=tags=TAGS

and then run

# ack --help=types

I get:

...
--[no]sql .sql .ctl
--[no]tags .TAGS
--[no]tcl .tcl .itcl .itk
...

It should say:

--[no]tags TAGS (no '.')

Running ack seems to confirm that the type-set is being treated as if it were ".TAGS" not "TAGS"

This is contrary to documentation, which shows explicit leading '.' characters for filename extensions throughout.