Hi, On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Johannes Schindelin (2009-01-14 23:06 +0100) wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Thomas Rast wrote: > >> -aaa [aaa] > >> +aaa (aaa) aaa > >> > >> would still give you > >> > >> aaa (aaa)<GREEN> aaa<RESET> > >> > >> which may be unexpected. > > > > But why should it be unexpected? If people say that every length of "a" > > makes a word, and consequently everything else is clutter, then that's > > that, no? > > It works logically but I'd very much like to see a some kind of advice > in the man page. I already faced this (unexpected) situation and wasn't > able to fix the regexp myself. Exactly because it works logically, I do not want to change it. This is what the user said, and for a change, it could be what the user meant. You'll have to come up with a method to describe exactly what you want. So what is it exactly? What would you want in such a situation? You asked for words that consist solely of the letter 'a'. Now, the surrounding stuff differs. What should Git do? BTW this gets even worse when you compare the following: bbb aaa ccc aaa --color-words=a+ will show ccc aaa (!!!) Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
