Color regex matches - without dropping misses

Question

When using grep --color=always I can get pretty color highlighting for regex matches.

However, grep only returns lines with at least one match.

Answer 1

This little function works well in my ZShell:

function color_grep {
    sed s/$1/$fg[yellow]$1$terminfo[sgr0]/g
}

(Needs

autoload colors zsh/terminfo

)

Maybe you can do something similar?

Edit: Sorry, this won't work with regexes. You will have to tweak it a bit ...