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Re: [PATCH] git-grep: add --color to highlight matches

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
May 26, 2008, 10:57 UTC
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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.

-- 
Duy
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  1. git-grep: add --color to highlight matchesNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, May 24, 2008
  2. Jakub NarebskiMay 24, 2008
  3. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 24, 2008
  4. Jakub NarebskiMay 24, 2008
  5. Andreas EricssonMay 26, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinMay 26, 2008
  7. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 26, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinMay 26, 2008
  9. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 26, 2008
  10. Johannes SchindelinMay 26, 2008

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