Re: [PATCH v2] make diff --color-words customizable

> On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> >> On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >> 
> >> Isn't Meyers algorithm used by libxdiff based on LCS, largest common
> >> subsequence, and doesn't it generate from the mathematical point of
> >> view "diff" between two sequences (two arrays) which just happen to
> >> be lines? It is a bit strange that libxdiff doesn't export its low
> >> level algorithm...
> > 
> > Umm.
> > 
> > It _is_ Myers' algorithm.  It just so happens that libxdiff hardcodes 
> > newline to be the separator.
> 
> So amd I to understand that _exported_ functions hardcode separator
> to be newline (most probably for performance), and there is no function
> in libxdiff which calculates LCS, or returns diff for arrays
> (sequences)?