From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 09:44:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] Make boundary characters for --color-words configurable
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805041040560.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <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