Please stop calling it ack-grep. Debian already had an ack package and didn't get their priorities the way I would have wished. That's their problem, not the official name.

"didn't get their priorities the way I would have wished"???

They already had a package named ack. WTF? By "getting their priorities" correct you mean catering to you?

The same problem is currently happening with node.js. Its unfortunate that node.js chose node to replace an equally ambiguous and generic name.

I didn't say "correct". I said "the way I would have wished". I expressed a personal preference, you're making me sound like more of a jerk than I already am.

That being said, yes, I believe they're plain wrong on this one. They shouldn't cater to me, but to their users. Thank God they have stats.

http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=ack-grep

http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=ack

I count in both because I installed the ack package mistakingly. I'm probably not the only one.

Still a very large WIN for ack, the one I care about.

Ack is awesome. It makes life as a programmer so much easier -- no more fiddling around trying to remember the useful flags for grep.

Plus it has --thpppt.