Hi,
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Thomas Rast wrote:
> Allows for user-configurable word splits when using --color-words. This
> can make the diff more readable if the regex is configured according to
> the language of the file.
>
> For now the (POSIX extended) regex must be set via the environment
> GIT_DIFF_WORDS_REGEX. Each (non-overlapping) match of the regex is
> considered a word. Anything characters not matched are considered
> whitespace. For example, for C try
>
> GIT_DIFF_WORDS_REGEX='[0-9]+|[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*|(\+|-|&|\|){1,2}|\S'
>
> and for TeX try
>
> GIT_DIFF_WORDS_REGEX='\\[a-zA-Z@]+ *|\{|\}|\\.|[^\{} [:space:]]+'
Interesting idea. However, I think it would be better to do the opposite,
have _word_ patterns. And even better to have _one_ pattern.
Then we could have a --color-words-regex=<regex> option.
BTW I think you could do what you intended to do with a _way_ smaller
and more intuitive patch.
Ciao,
Dscho
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