From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 16:27:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] Make boundary characters for --color-words configurable
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"Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:

> With following patch, the diff output becomes (i don't know which one is better)
>
> OpenOffice.org has {+a }user setting for defining the minimum length for
> words to be hyphenated. By default the word length is counted from the
> whole word - even for compound words. For example the {compound +}word
> 'elokuvalippu' is {+considered }12 characters long. The word will be hyphenated like
>  'elo-ku-va-lip-pu' in all cases when the minimum word length is set to
>  12 or less. If the minimum length is set to 13 or more the word is not
>  hyphenated at all.

Yeah, after playing with it a bit, I realize that my original stated goal
of not playing games with "newline suppression" goes very against what
color-words, which is a word oriented diff, tries to achieve.  It appears
that it is necessary to reintroduce suppressed_newline.