From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:57:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH take 3 0/4] color-words improvements
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901161255520.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <adf1fd3d0901160102y32a08e26q96728495fc0b6fcf@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Santi Béjar wrote:

>  2009/1/16 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
> >
> > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Santi Béjar wrote:
> >
> >> If everything works as I think (it's late night :-) with the above 
> >> two lines:
> >>
> >> matrix[a,b,c]
> >> matrix{d,b,c}
> >>
> >> the word diff would be
> >>
> >> matrix<RED>[<GREEN>{<RED>a<GREEN>d<RESET>,b,c<RED>]<GREEN>}<RED>
> >
> > So I guess that you want something like
> >
> >        [A-Za-z0-9]+|[^A-Za-z0-9 \t]+
> >
> 
> So, I see, it is a matter of finding the right regexp.
> 
> But the only use case for me is of this kind, and I think for the
> others too. So maybe an easier way to specify it could be worth.

Sure.  If you can come up with a nice name for it, we could add special 
handling for something like "[[:words:]]" expanding into said regexp.

Ciao,
Dscho