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Re: [PATCH] make --color-words separate word on ispunct

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Apr 12, 2008, 15:23 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0804121621560.16366@eeepc-johanness>
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Hi,
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, sgala@hisitech.com wrote:
> Note that this may actually be harmful when trying to spot punctuation 
> changes, but for this use case I don't think color-words is helping now 
> either.

I do not know how commonly supported ispunct(), therefore I do not like the patch too much.

Besides, since long ago I want to make the list of boundary characters configurable, preferably as a tr(1) style list, but I have not come around to do that yet.

Ciao, Dscho

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