From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:05:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [ILLUSTRATION PATCH] color-words: take an optional regular expression describing words
Message-ID: <87wsd48wam.fsf@iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <200901091324.40583.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast (2009-01-09 13:24 +0100) wrote:

> 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.