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[PATCH v2 5/7] color: allow "no-" for negating attributes

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 23, 2016, 17:38 UTC
Message-ID
<20160623173844.GE15774@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20160623173048.GA19923@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Using "no-bold" rather than "nobold" is easier to read and more natural to type (to me, anyway, even though I was the person who introduced "nobold" in the first place). It's easy to allow both.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 Documentation/config.txt | 2 +-
 color.c                  | 4 +++-
 t/t4026-color.sh         | 4 ++++
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index f8460d4..4b13c90 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ hex, like `#ff0ab3`.
 The accepted attributes are `bold`, `dim`, `ul`, `blink`, and `reverse`.
 The position of any attributes with respect to the colors (before, after,
 or in between), doesn't matter. Specific attributes may be turned off
-by prefixing them with `no` (e.g., `noreverse`, `noul`, etc).
+by prefixing them with `no` or `no-` (e.g., `noreverse`, `no-ul`, etc).
 +
 For git's pre-defined color slots, the attributes are meant to be reset
 at the beginning of each item in the colored output. So setting
diff --git a/color.c b/color.c
index d787dec..a02a935 100644
--- a/color.c
+++ b/color.c
@@ -141,8 +141,10 @@ static int parse_attr(const char *name, size_t len)
 	int negate = 0;
 	int i;
 
-	if (skip_prefix_mem(name, len, "no", &name, &len))
+	if (skip_prefix_mem(name, len, "no", &name, &len)) {
+		skip_prefix_mem(name, len, "-", &name, &len);
 		negate = 1;
+	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(attrs); i++) {
 		if (attrs[i].len == len && !memcmp(attrs[i].name, name, len))
diff --git a/t/t4026-color.sh b/t/t4026-color.sh
index 2b32c4f..2065752 100755
--- a/t/t4026-color.sh
+++ b/t/t4026-color.sh
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ test_expect_success 'attr negation' '
 	color "nobold nodim noul noblink noreverse" "[22;24;25;27m"
 '
 
+test_expect_success '"no-" variant of negation' '
+	color "no-bold no-blink" "[22;25m"
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'long color specification' '
 	color "254 255 bold dim ul blink reverse" "[1;2;4;5;7;38;5;254;48;5;255m"
 '
-- 
2.9.0.209.g845fbc1
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  2. 0/2 more ANSI attributesJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  3. 1/2 color: fix max-size commentJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  4. 2/2 color: support "italic" attributeJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  5. Simon CourtoisJun 23, 2016
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2016
  7. Jeff KingJun 23, 2016
  8. 0/7 more ANSI attributesJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  9. 1/7 color: fix max-size commentJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  10. 2/7 doc: refactor description of color formatJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  11. 3/7 add skip_prefix_mem helperJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  12. 4/7 color: refactor parse_attrJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  13. 5/7 color: allow "no-" for negating attributesJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  14. 6/7 color: support "italic" attributeJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  15. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2016
  16. Jeff KingJun 23, 2016
  17. 7/7 color: support strike-through attributeJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  18. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2016
  19. Jeff KingJun 23, 2016
  20. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2016
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