Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] --color-words: Make non-word characters configurable

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 4, 2008, 06:45 UTC
Message-ID: <7vk5iar2it.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1209874815-14411-5-git-send-email-pkufranky@gmail.com>

Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:

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> A more sensible implementation is to use 'insert' instead of 'replace'.
> Say, to insert a line break between runs of word characters and non-word
> characters or between non-word characters.
>
> That is, "foo>=bar" will be rewritten as "foo\n>\n=\nbar" instead of
> "foo\n\nbar".

Hmmmm.

I am not sure if/why you would want a separator between '>' and '=' in that example. Shouldn't that be "foo <sep> >= <sep> bar"?

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