Re: --only-matching interacts badly with context lines and line head [bug-grep]

[Charles Levert]

* On Wednesday 2005-02-23 at 09:51:34 +0000, Julian Foad wrote:
> Charles Levert wrote:
> >I found another set of issues with -o/--only-matching.
> 
> See my patch #3477 at 
> https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?func=detailitem&item_id=3477
> which provides tests for some of these problems.  (It's about time I 
> checked it in to CVS.)

My version still fails the "end of a previous match should
not match ^" test.

"grep --color" is equally affected by this.

This one will not be easy to fix, since the "^" does
not necessarily appear at the beginning of the pattern
with egrep.