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Bug#456943: Weird colored output issues



On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 10:50:11AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > At the moment, I can't think of anything except the less-elegant solution
> > of inserting newlines into the text to make it wrap as expected.  (It's
> > less elegant since redirecting the text to a file will have the newlines,
> > and also because then grep would have to know the terminal width).
> 
>  I think grep checks whether its output file descriptor is a tty to
>  enable escape sequences.  I'll reassign to grep and suggest this;
>  thanks!

no problem

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Thomas E. Dickey
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