From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:45:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] commit, status: #comment diff output in verbose mode
Message-ID: <7vvczq1o4l.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110310225233.GH15828@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> One reason to keep the existing behavior is that editors will tend to
> syntax-highlight the diff portion without much extra effort (in vim, at
> least, the syntax highlighting just includes the diff syntax
> highlighting for that section).

Hmm, thanks for pointing it out; it indeed is a valid concern.

Although I usually strongly resist changes in order to keep the user
experience stable, I didn't think about this one, as I don't let the
editor syntax highlight anything.