Re: [PATCH] Make words boundary for --color-words configurable

From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: May 2, 2008, 08:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20080502081408.GA11420@mithlond.arda.local>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805020839200.2691@eeepc-johanness>

Johannes Schindelin wrote (2008-05-02 08:45 +0100):

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> On Fri, 2 May 2008, Ping Yin wrote:
> 
> > Previously --color-words only allow spaces as words boundary.
> > However, just space is not enough. For example, when i rename
> > a function from foo to bar, following example doesn't show as
> > expected when using --color-words.
> 
> Thanks for starting this.
> 
> However, as Junio pointed out, it is easier to specify
> word-characters, rather than non-word characters (think TAB), and...

Just a quick note from someone who is not so much a programmer but who uses Git to track text/LaTex/etc. files with human languages: Please don't make this kind of things too Ascii-specific and too much byte-is-interpreted-as-character type thing.

In general, my opinion is that with international text it's better to define word boundary characters than trying to maintain a _huge_ list of characters used within words in different human languages.