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Though I've switched to ag, I still miss Ack's selection and deselection flags. Those are much sweeter than ag's -g and -G and it looks like they've improved further

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As mentioned above, there's no need to have 'one search tool to rule them all.' You don't uninstall grep from your system when installing ag or ack.

> You don't uninstall grep

Beautiful. Thank you. I am stealing that for when I discuss this in other places.

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