Am 26.11.18 um 04:04 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
It appears to me that what Frank sees is not "^M highlighted for whitespace breakage appears only on postimage lines, while ^M is shown but not highlighted on preimage lines". My reading of the above is "Not just without highlight, ^M is just *NOT* shown on the preimage line". That does not sound right. I would understand it if both lines showed ^M at the end, and only the one on the postimage line had it highlighted as a trailing-whitespace.
I agree that this is a (small?) weakness. But...
When we are producing a colored output, we know we are *not* writing for machines, so one way to do it would be to turn CR at the end of the line into two letter "^" "M" sequence on our end, without relying on the terminal and/or the pager. I dunno.
... this goes too far, IMO. It is the pager's task to decode control characters.
-- Hannes
