On 2009-11-23, Morten Kjærulff wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Alan Fay <empty...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Howdy! > > > > I was trying to enable colors on the matching text for grep, and can't > > get the formatting to work with the matching text. > > > > # Partial contents of .zshenv > > export GREP_OPTIONS="--color=auto" > > export GREP_COLORS='mt=1;34' > > > > # Problem command, no matching text (mt) appearing bold/blue, run in a > > C# solution: > > $ grep -R -n -i -e "functionFoo\(" --include=*.cs --exclude-dir=Logs * > > > > # Command that works and highlights matching text, note that -i option > > disabled > > $ grep -R -n -e "functionFoo\(" --include=*.cs --exclude-dir=Logs * > > > > My superuser inquiry: > > http://superuser.com/questions/73261/grep-colorauto-with-i-option-disables-the-matching-text-color-why > > > > This problem was found with the following program/platform versions: > > > > $ uname -a > > CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 *** 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin > > > > $ grep --version > > GNU grep 2.5.3 > > > > $ zsh --version > > zsh 4.3.9 (i686-pc-cygwin) > > > > Windows Vista Business > > Service Pack 2 > > > > Feel free to email me with anything that's missing. I'm not sure if > > this is a bug with Cygwin on Vista or perhaps grep. I didn't find > > much past the man pages on google with respect to grep colorization > > (on any platform).
> could be the same as "my" problem: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-10/msg00548.html This appears to be a grep problem and not a Cygwin problem as it fails for me using grep 2.5.4 on a Red Hat Linux system: Matches are not colored if the -i option is used and the pattern contains any upper-case letters. You might check the grep project page at http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/. I didn't see it among the reported bugs. If you don't see it there, either, go ahead and report it. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple