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

From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: May 7, 2008, 01:15 UTC
Message-ID: <46dff0320805061815k6aca9020g285b09da2bcf29c3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805060954470.30431@racer>

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> > I will come up with an implementation still using diff.nonwordchars few
>  > days later.
>
>  If I did not like the unnecessary negative approach "nonwordchars" (as
>  opposed to "wordchars"), it seems even less appropriate now, when you
>  actually want to discern between "spaceCharacters",
>  "punctuationCharacters" and "wordCharacters".
>

Hmm, punctchars should be a better word than nonwordchars.

So how about this

--color-words={char,punct,word}

  - char: one char one token
  - punct/word: a token can be either a run of word characters or a
single punct character.  diff.punctchars is used for punct, and
diff.wordchars is used for word.

We leave the choice to the user.

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Ping Yin