Close scope for global options in a tikz-pgf path

Question

As an example, I wish to draw two segments, one in blue, one in red.

\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw [color=blue](0,0)--(1,1);
\draw [color=red](1,0)--(0,1);
\end{tikzpicture}

I wish I could issue only one draw or path command such as this (the path is computed externally) :

\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw [color=blue] (0,0)--(1,1) [color=red] (1,0)--(0,1)
\end{tikzpicture}

But this will draw two red lines since "color" is global to the path and the red color will supercede the blue color in the whole path.

Is there a path command, let's say \stop, that would make

\draw [color=blue] (0,0)--(1,1) \stop [color=red] (1,0)--(0,1);

equivalent to

\draw [color=blue] (0,0)--(1,1);
\draw [color=red] (1,0)--(0,1);

?

P.S. 1 : the external program can then produce a single phrase : "[color=blue] (0,0)--(1,1) \stop [color=red] (1,0)--(0,1);" I can put behind the "\draw" command.

P.S. 2 : without entering too much details, it is difficult to make the program produce "\draw" because during the transfer to Latex, it is interpreted by Latex not Tikz.

Answer 1

No you can't. Either you loose the line joining features (miter etc.) or you use one color per stroke if used the typical -- operation.

The stopping part can be done via to or edge operations and the above statement also apply to them (in different contexts)

\draw (0,0) edge[draw=red]  (1,1) 
      (1,0) edge[draw=blue] (0,1);

This gives a different colored X arms.

As a side note, use draw=red instead of color=red to just change the stroke color.