Re: Why tab is not colored?

[Joachim Schmitz]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Peng Yu wrote:
> > My grep is aliased to "grep --color=auto".
> >
> > I then use grep "<TAB>", where <TAB> is a tab character. But the
> > result is not colored. How to make the tabs colored?
>
> You might try asking that question on bug-grep.  This is bug-bash and
> your issue does not seem to be with bash.

Furthermore: how would you want to color a white space character? As far as 
I can see grep only alters the foreground color, which doesn't show for 
white space

Bye, Jojo