From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:53:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] make diff --color-words customizable
Message-ID: <20090109095300.GA4099@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1231459505-14395-1-git-send-email-trast@student.ethz.ch>

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:05:05AM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:

> Word diff becomes much more useful especially with TeX, where it is
> common to run together \sequences\of\commands\like\this that the
> current --color-words treats as a single word.

I have run into this, as well, and it would be nice to have configurable
word boundaries.

> Apart from possible bugs, the main issue is: where should I put the
> configuration for this?

It's a per-file thing, so probably in the diff driver that is triggered
via attributes. See userdiff.[ch]; you'll need to add an entry to the
userdiff_driver struct. You can look at the funcname pattern stuff as a
template, as this is very similar.

-Peff