I've read most of the comments in this thread and will read TFA, but haven't yet. What's always bothered me about piping to grep is losing the original syntax

I've read most of the comments in this thread and will read TFA, but haven't yet. What's always bothered me about piping to grep is losing the original syntax highlighting. Particularly annoying when the first command, whose highlighting I want to preserve, is itself grep; this leads to awkward contortions like git grep "a" | grep -v "b" | grep "a"