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

cgf

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