From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 11:51:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] Make boundary characters for --color-words configurable
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805051249520.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320805040935n22354e1bta85b3f3fe7c16cad@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 5 May 2008, Ping Yin wrote:

> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  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.
> 
> Why not
> 
>   The <r>quick</r><g>fast</g><r>,</r>
>   <g>,</g>brown fox

I might well be a complete idiot, but your <r></r><something> example is 
way harder for me to read than my example.

And of course your example would still be wrong: the "quick" and the comma 
would not be separated at all.

Ciao,
Dscho