bug#20728: 25.0.50; grep and grep-find templates should have a place holder for the --color argument

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06/05/2015 01:50 AM, Juri Linkov wrote:

> I guess you need reusing the grep command line for purposes
> other than highlighting its matches in the output buffer, right?

Yep, to run it and parse the output programmatically.

> Some time ago additional grep options (including "--color=auto")
> were set in env GREP_OPTIONS were they could be easily changed,
> but not anymore after 2e4c2fe2787785a421f256541de642976e9bd90b.

Thanks for the background.

> So maybe now we should add a place holder for grep options
> in the template and use it the same way as we used GREP_OPTIONS.

Indeed. I'm inclined toward <O>, for "additional Options".