Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] Make boundary characters for --color-words configurable

From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: May 4, 2008, 16:35 UTC
Message-ID: <46dff0320805040935n22354e1bta85b3f3fe7c16cad@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805041040560.30431@racer>

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
>  The problem: given two chunks of text, where a word was changed, and a
>  non-word-character was moved to the next line.  Example:
>
>         The quick,
>         brown fox
>
>  vs
>
>         The fast
>         , brown fox
>
>  IMHO the layout of the new version should be retained, i.e.
>
>         The /quick/fast/
>         , brown fox
>
>  should be shown.

Why not

  The <r>quick</r><g>fast</g><r>,</r>
  <g>,</g>brown fox

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Ping Yin

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