Re: [PATCH] make --color-words separate word on ispunct

From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 12, 2008, 15:32 UTC
Message-ID: <46dff0320804120832x733000e8md813e3f8525b889a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804121621560.16366@eeepc-johanness>

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
>
>  On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, sgala@hisitech.com wrote:
>
>  > Note that this may actually be harmful when trying to spot punctuation
>  > changes, but for this use case I don't think color-words is helping now
>  > either.
>
>  I do not know how commonly supported ispunct(), therefore I do not like
>  the patch too much.
>
>  Besides, since long ago I want to make the list of boundary characters
>  configurable, preferably as a tr(1) style list, but I have not come around
>  to do that yet.
>

It is so good an idea. I look forward to it. Futher, should --color-words support multibyte characters where every character is a boundary?

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Ping Yin