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Previous color lost when using --color=always option

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From: Adrian H <adrianh.bsc <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: Previous color lost when using --color=always option
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 12:44:29 -0400

If I use grep --color=always and it matches on a line that is already
coloured, it results in the text after the match is reset to the
terminal's default colour/attributes. E.g.
This just shows a line with some colour/attributes set:
 $ echo The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog |
 > GREP_COLOR='03;36' grep --color=always '.*'
 ESC[03;36mESC[KThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogESC[mESC[K
This shows the same line with fox highlighted in other attributes:
 $ echo The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog |
 > GREP_COLOR='03;36' grep --color=always '.*' |
 > GREP_COLOR='01;36' grep --color=always 'fox'
 ESC[03;36mESC[KThe quick brown ESC[01;36mESC[KfoxESC[mESC[K jumps
over the lazy dogESC[mESC[K
The issue is that the current colour isn't tracked, it is just reset
with ESC[m. It would be nice if it were able to be tracked. Yes, it
is more difficult to code, but I think it would be useful when
highlighting a coloured textual document.

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