From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:37:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] make diff --color-words customizable
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901101237050.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <gk8usj$slh$1@ger.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Thomas Rast wrote:
> 
> > --color-words works (and always worked) by splitting words onto one
> > line each, and using the normal line-diff machinery to get a word
> > diff. 
> 
> Cannot we generalize diff machinery / use underlying LCS diff engine
> instead of going through line diff?

What do you think we're doing?  libxdiff is pretty hardcoded to newlines.  
That's why we're substituting non-word characters with newlines.

Ciao,
Dscho