Colorized grep — viewing the entire file with highlighted matches

Question

I find grep\'s --color=always flag to be tremendously useful. However, grep only prints lines with matches (unless you ask for context lines). Give

Answer 1

As grep -E '|pattern' has already been suggested, just wanted to clarify it's possible to highlight the whole line too.

For example tail -f /somelog | grep --color -E '| \[2].*':