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

From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: May 2, 2008, 04:28 UTC
Message-ID: <46dff0320805012128l6cb15e1ekd40f84a9eac724d1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vprs5xsvi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:
>

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>  I suspect a more natural definition of word boundary is between a run of
>  word characters and a run of non-word characters.  IOW, instead of saying
>  " " and "(these other)" characters are boundary, you would say
>
>         if (foo(arg))
>
>  between f and space, open paren and f, second o and open paren, that open
>  paren and a, ... are boundaries.
>
>  If you go that route, you would make the definition of "what is the set of
>  word characters" configurable.

I prefer nonwordcharacters to wordcharacters. With diff.wordcharacters, to maintain the same behaviour as before, i have to define a long list of characters. While with diff.nonwordcharacters, i need only define it to "".

So how about just renaming wordsboundary to nonwordcharacters?

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Ping Yin