From: Teemu Likonen Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 14:43:37 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] --color-words: Make the word characters configurable Message-ID: <20080503144337.GA7987@mithlond.arda.local> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin wrote (2008-05-03 15:03 +0100): > Now, you can specify which characters are to be interpreted as word > characters with "--color-words=A-Za-z", or by setting the config > variable diff.wordCharacters. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin > --- > > I would have preferred an approach like this. Unfortunately this does not work at all with other than Ascii characters. It makes --color-words completely unusable for anything other than Ascii text. Sorry. Ping Yin's version has also the problem that UTF-8 multibyte characters U+0080..U+10FFFF don't work in diff.nonwordchars. Fortunately the most important word delimiters are in U+0000..U+007F (=Ascii) area so Ping's version is perfectly usable with Unicode text. (Even the old --color-words behaviour with only SPACE as non-word char was perfectly usable with Unicode text.) I, too, would like to see Ping's patch series merged in.