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23.1.50; ^G in M-x grep mode with git grep

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Message #61 received at 4359 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 4359 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>,
	schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, Ulrich Neumerkel <ulrich <at> complang.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: bug#4359: 23.1.50; ^G in M-x grep mode with git grep
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:48:53 -0400

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se> writes:
>
>> grep --color=always
>
> Hm.  But I guess people don't want to have that explicitly on the
> command line they're editing when doing `M-x grep'?
>
> The original problem was that the user had used a command that has
> "less" as part of its pipeline, if running under a PTY.  Many other
> commands react to the PTY in different ways (some that we want, like the
> GREP_COLOR thing), and some that we don't want (like running less).
>
> I'm not sure there's a fix here that will satisfy all use cases.

Does setting
GREP_OPTIONS to --color=always
work?

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