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Re: grep --color=auto with -i option disables the matching text color


On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:26:39AM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote:
>On 2009-11-24, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 03:07:12PM +0100, Morten Kj?rulff wrote:
>> >On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
>> >> ?Anyway, I can reproduce your problem (matching text colour disappears when
>> >> '-i') in a bash shell in cygwin 1.5, but it works just fine under 1.7; you
>> >> might want to try that.
>> >
>> >Found this:
>> >  http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18666
>> >could be related (or the actual error?)
>> 
>> Cygwin 1.7 has a newer version of grep.  It was announced here:
>> 
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html
>> 
>> I am not updating any 1.5 packages so this won't be fixed in Cygwin 1.5.
>> As Dave says, use Cygwin 1.7 if you want a fix for this.
>
>Actually, using Cygwin 1.7 isn't a fix for this, it's just a
>workaround if you happen to leave your locale set to 1.7's default
>of UTF-8.

Yes, I got that from Dave Korn's follow-on mail.  I didn't think there was
any need to comment further since he summarized the problem fairly well.

cgf

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