For ack you can defined custom filetype scopes for your projects.
If you for have a Mojolicious project consisting of:
- Perl files:
.pm,.pl,.t, - JavaScript files:
.js - CSS files:
.css - Template files:
.ep - Configuration files:
.conf
In your $HOME/.ackrc, insert the line: --type-set=mojo=.css,.pl,.pm,.html,.js,.ep,.conf
This mean you can ack across your complete project in the above file types avoiding logfiles etc.
$ ack --mojo session
Provides results across the above filetypes.
$ ack --mojo session --ignore-dir local
Provides results across the above filetypes, ignoring the local/ directory populated by carton.