From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 11:00:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-grep: add --color to highlight matches
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805261200330.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0805260357t2bce7753vab5331bb21d98e4b@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 26 May 2008, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Besides, it would be a kludge at best to work _twice_ to find out the
> > search terms, once in the external grep, and a second time in the coloring
> > code.  So I think it should not be done.
> 
> I think if it's GNU grep, just passing it --color, it will grep and
> colorize search terms in one turn.

And what tells you that the called grep is GNU grep?

Ciao,
Dscho