On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:26:39AM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: >On 2009-11-24, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> 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. > >Actually, using Cygwin 1.7 isn't a fix for this, it's just a >workaround if you happen to leave your locale set to 1.7's default >of UTF-8.
Yes, I got that from Dave Korn's follow-on mail. I didn't think there was any need to comment further since he summarized the problem fairly well. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple