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Re: [ILLUSTRATION PATCH] color-words: take an optional regular expression describing words

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TLTeemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date
Jan 9, 2009, 13:05 UTC
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Thomas Rast (2009-01-09 13:24 +0100) wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> > And I would like to keep the default as-is (together _with_ the
>> > performance. IOW if the user did not specify a regexp, it should
>> > fall back to what it does now, which is slow enough).
>
> That's definitely a valid request.

I agree with that too. A good thing about the current --color-words is that it automatically works with UTF-8 encoded text. This is _very_ important as --color-words is usually the best diff tool for human-language texts.

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Message 7 of 34 in “make diff --color-words customizable”
  1. make diff --color-words customizableThomas Rast, Jan 9, 2009
  2. Johannes SchindelinJan 9, 2009
  3. Thomas RastJan 9, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinJan 9, 2009
  5. color-words: take an optional regular expression describing wordsJohannes Schindelin, Jan 9, 2009
  6. Thomas RastJan 9, 2009
  7. Teemu LikonenJan 9, 2009
  8. make diff --color-words customizableThomas Rast, Jan 10, 2009
  9. Jakub NarebskiJan 10, 2009
  10. Johannes SchindelinJan 10, 2009
  11. Jakub NarebskiJan 10, 2009
  12. Johannes SchindelinJan 10, 2009
  13. Jakub NarebskiJan 12, 2009
  14. Johannes SchindelinJan 13, 2009
  15. Davide LibenziJan 10, 2009
  16. Jakub NarebskiJan 13, 2009
  17. Davide LibenziJan 13, 2009
  18. Johannes SchindelinJan 10, 2009
  19. Thomas RastJan 10, 2009
  20. Johannes SchindelinJan 10, 2009
  21. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2009
  22. 0/4 customizable --color-wordsThomas Rast, Jan 11, 2009
  23. 1/4 word diff: comments, preparations for regex customizationThomas Rast, Jan 11, 2009
  24. 2/4 word diff: customizable word splitsThomas Rast, Jan 11, 2009
  25. 3/4 word diff: make regex configurable via attributesThomas Rast, Jan 11, 2009
  26. 4/4 word diff: test customizable word splitsThomas Rast, Jan 11, 2009
  27. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2009
  28. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2009
  29. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2009
  30. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2009
  31. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2009
  32. Jeff KingJan 9, 2009
  33. Johannes SchindelinJan 9, 2009
  34. Jeff KingJan 9, 2009

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