Apply colour to text that matched regexp

[Wilfred]

Currently, the colours are only based on path: directories are a different colour, executable files are a different colour, etc.

It would be nice to highlight which parts of the path matched the current regexp. This would help understand why a given file matched the regexp.

[sharkdp]

Thank you for the suggestion! In fact, that's something I already tried quickly but it turned out to be a bit more complicated than I thought due to the interleaving ANSI escape sequences.

I was planning to use underlining in order for this to work alongside the coloring. What do you think?

[Wilfred]

Sounds good to me!

[jmcomets]

Opinion: color seems much more appropriate than underlining (a-la grep).
EDIT: I agree that underlining would work well as it doesn't conflict with the previously configured color in LS_COLORS.

Also, if no one is looking into this, I wouldn't mine giving it a try.

[sharkdp]

Sorry for the late response. I'm currently not looking into this. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[jmcomets]

Follow up: I haven't been able to look at it that much, I've been busy with other repos (and vacation 🌴 🌞 ).

I'll keep at it here (warning: serious refactored version there, helps me understand but will likely never be merged as complex as it is).

[sharkdp]

No worries and thank you very much for sharing this!

[sharkdp]

First working prototype in #53

[sharkdp]

I'm going to close this, as there seems to be no activity. If anyone is interested in reviving this, have a look at #53