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25.0.50; grep and grep-find templates should have a place holder for the --color argument

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 20728 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20728: 25.0.50; grep and grep-find templates should have a place holder for the --color argument
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 04:22:21 +0300

On 06/28/2015 01:49 AM, Juri Linkov wrote:

> Does zgrep still work after your changes?

It does.

> This is only a hypothetical case.

Sure.

> Maybe some users don't want highlighting?

Then they'll set grep-highlight-matches to nil, and there won't be a 
--color option in the constructed command at all.

What I'm asking is, on the other hand, why do we sometimes pass --color, 
but not --color=always?

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