Support grep color format about rtail HOT 5 CLOSED

@baptistemarchand thanks for contributing.

ANSI parsing apparently is very hard. I spent quite some time looking for the "right" lib without luck. As you can see the color is parsed ~correctly, it may be a problem with [K. I will google it up but it's ansi_up issue. I am open to suggestions on alternative libs.

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try this:

$ echo -e "\e[01;31mlol\e[m aaa" | rtail --name test_grep

the problem appears to be grep adding a clearline escape.

ref: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/45190/grep-color-adds-ansi-code-esck-this-can-change-displayed-text

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$ GREP_COLORS=ne echo lol aaa | grep --color=always lol | rtail --id test_grep

did we do it? 💃

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Thanks for your quick answer!
I tried the GREP_COLORS solution yesterday and couldn't get it to work. After some investigation today it appears that BSD grep (the version used on mac) doesn't support the GREP_COLORS variable. I tried it on Linux and it works fine with GNU grep.
This is getting really outside the scope of rtail so you can probably close this issue. I'll let you know if I find an elegant workaround for OSX!
It might be useful to document the GREP_COLORS=ne thing somewhere, like in the README or some FAQ.
Thanks!

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@baptistemarchand thanks for contributing.

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