X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:21:54 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: grep --color=auto with -i option disables the matching text color Message-ID: <20091124192154.GA7045@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <6dbd17a60911230751o68e4c6e6p47c9cc76c010be2b AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <4B0BDB57 DOT 5040009 AT gmail DOT com> <20091124153930 DOT GB31706 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20091124162639 DOT GA3520 AT KCJs-Computer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091124162639.GA3520@KCJs-Computer> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 -- 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