From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:05:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] diff --word-diff: use non-whitespace regex by default
Message-ID: <87lipexawp.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <1326302702-4536-2-git-send-email-rctay89@gmail.com>

Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> writes:

> Factor out the comprehensive non-whitespace regex in use by PATTERNS and
> IPATTERN and use it as the word-diff regex for the default diff driver.

Why?

I seem to recall that the motivation for keeping the original code as-is
instead of just emulating its behavior with a default regex was that it
is faster.  So disabling the default mode should at least have an
advantage?

</devils-advocate>

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch