Package: grep Version: 2.5.3~dfsg-6 Severity: wishlist grep should have an option to filter non-printable characters from the contents (file contents, but also filenames -- see bug #42630) *before coloring*. The values could be "never", "always" and "auto", like with --color.
Such an option would be useful because: 1. The option --binary-files is a heuristic only; the user may want to have more information on binary files anyway. 2. It is not even possible to write a wrapper script when coloring is used, because after coloring, it is not possible (or at least very difficult) to do the difference between escape sequences from grep and those from the original contents. Such non-printable characters could be either replaced by some locale-specific replacement character or transcoded. I wonder whether filtering should be the default when the output is connected to a terminal (and when POSIXLY_CORRECT is not set). It would not be worse than the default --binary-files=binary. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.3-20080822 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages grep depends on: ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries grep recommends no packages. grep suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
