Bug#831673: bug#24024: grep: Mixing "max-count" and "after-context" outputs too few lines

Given after-context=3 it is expected to output at least 4 lines as documented, but adding max-count=1 makes it stop on the next matching line. Thanks for reporting this. Although grep's behavior is documented ("context does not include matching lines" in the node General Output Control) the

Bug#831673: bug#24024: grep: Mixing "max-count" and "after-context" outputs too few lines

> Igor Bogomazov filed the following bug against grep in > Debian. > > > $ printf '%s\n' a b a c | grep -m1 -A3 a > > > > What I see: > > > > a > > b > > > > What I expect: > > > > a > > b > > a > > c As long as looking at prepending(), I see that it is designed but not