Re: [feature request] Colouring matches in --result=grep outputs

[Jason Hood]

On 31/05/2013 19:10, Shigio YAMAGUCHI wrote:
> On Fri, 31 May 2013 12:04:26 +0800
> Leo Liu <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> I like the brief output from --result=grep. Unfortunately it is not easy
>> to identify the tag found in each line. It'd be nice if the matched tag
>> is coloured, for example, like 'grep' with '--color'.
> 
> I have added the option to the TODO list.
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/global/plans.html)

Find attached a patch that adds -C (--color, --colour) to do it.  It
uses GREP_COLORS (mt or ms) or GREP_COLOR to define the color; default
is bold red text.  It only works with -g, whatever the output.  The
Windows version will require ANSICON (ANSI32.dll), but I'll include
that in my binaries (global.exe with colour and fixed idutils and
--single-update, along with gtags.exe with fixed idutils are here:
http://global.adoxa.vze.com/global.zip).

The patch also fixes literal matching at the end of the file (-V
wasn't including the last line, nor did it properly test/display the
last line if it didn't have a newline).

-- 
Jason.

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