From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 11:24:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] Make boundary characters for --color-words configurable
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805071223450.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320805061815k6aca9020g285b09da2bcf29c3@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 7 May 2008, Ping Yin wrote:

> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > I will come up with an implementation still using diff.nonwordchars few
> >  > days later.
> >
> >  If I did not like the unnecessary negative approach "nonwordchars" (as
> >  opposed to "wordchars"), it seems even less appropriate now, when you
> >  actually want to discern between "spaceCharacters",
> >  "punctuationCharacters" and "wordCharacters".
> >
> 
> Hmm, punctchars should be a better word than nonwordchars.
> 
> So how about this
> 
> --color-words={char,punct,word}
> 
>   - char: one char one token
>   - punct/word: a token can be either a run of word characters or a
> single punct character.  diff.punctchars is used for punct, and
> diff.wordchars is used for word.

I am rather interested in the semantics, i.e. if you can punch holes into 
this 3-class approach.

Bikeshedding comes later ;-)

Ciao,
Dscho