Thank you. This inspired me to read the ripgrep man page. I think I must have been confusing ripgrep's behavior with the earlier ack (or maybe ag) tool which on

Thank you. This inspired me to read the ripgrep man page. I think I must have been confusing ripgrep's behavior with the earlier ack (or maybe ag) tool which only searched known extensions by default. I see now that ripgrep only does that if explicitly given a --type option.