grep "standout mode" (was "Tool -flag considered harmful")

Andrew Klossner andrew at frip.gwd.tek.com
Fri Jun 17 03:25:42 AEST 1988


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	"Hey, while we're at it, have an option to highlight the
	matched pattern(s) in STANDOUT MODE (i.e. add control
	characters based on getenv("TERM") or a -Tname option)."

As an amusing side note, in 1981 I marketed a set of Unix-like
utilities for CP/M-80 in which the grep clone did just this.  It got
good reviews.  Gee, maybe I'll go hack our local grep.c ...  :-)

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (andrew%tekecs.tek.com at relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]



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