Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] Make boundary characters for --color-words configurable
- From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- May 4, 2008, 09:44 UTC
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- <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805041040560.30431@racer>
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- <46dff0320805031732x25286707r991358162046c07c@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Sun, 4 May 2008, Ping Yin wrote:
> If we set diff.nonwordchars to "()", the example above will show as "if > (<r>foo(</r><g>bar(</g>arg))". It's much better, athough not the best.
Okay, let's use the power of Open Source, and come up with the best solution.
The problem: given two chunks of text, where a word was changed, and a non-word-character was moved to the next line. Example:
The quick, brown fox
vs
The fast , brown fox
IMHO the layout of the new version should be retained, i.e.
The /quick/fast/ , brown fox
should be shown.
If everybody is fine with that, I'll try to come up with an implementation.
Ciao, Dscho