Explain how styles and decorations interact in pipelines - #3992
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The documentation currently says --decorations=always enables decorations in pipelines without explaining that --style=auto has already selected an empty layout. This makes the two independent automatic settings difficult to understand.
Clarify that --style selects components and --decorations controls their display, and that the default style is default. Show explicit pipeline commands, explain how replacing a configured auto style with default lets decorations control the existing layout, and document the mixed auto,numbers case. Update README and the manual together.
This addresses the requested documentation clarification in #1743. It does not introduce new style syntax or alter existing flag behavior.
Validation: checked 20 redirected-output and real-PTY combinations against the current baseline binary, covering auto, default, numbers, auto,numbers and full with automatic and forced decorations. Whitespace checks passed.
Fixes #1743.