Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > (2) In practice, I found that even after coloring those annotations in > red, it was still easy for the eye to glide right over them in the > output without really noticing them. Switching it to bold red helped a > bit, but my eye still glided over them sometimes. One possible reason > that the eye was able to glide over them may be because the "?!FOO?!" > annotations are very short bits of text buried in the much larger and > textually noisy test body. Maybe partly because I work with black-ink-on-white-paper terminal setting, and maybe partly because my color perception is suboptimal, I learned to use "[diff.color] old = red reverse", because non-bold red letters do not stand out enough. Perhaps you may want to try reverse output to see how well it makes them stand out for you. I do not think if configurability like "git diff" has is necessary; it would be overkill. I personally do not mind more noise "?!" around the keyword, especially since these are only shown when there are problems detected.
