From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 13:10:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] Make boundary characters for --color-words configurable
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805071408360.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320805070519m569d9653ja276412fde135f45@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 7 May 2008, Ping Yin wrote:

> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >  > 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 ;-)
> 
> Sorry, but i can't parse both sentences, especially Bikeshedding and
> "punch holes into".

"punch holes into": find cases where Junio's proposed algorithm breaks 
down.

"bikeshedding": discussing minor implementation details that are not 
really interesting at this stage.  See also 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeshedding.

Ciao,
Dscho