Santi Béjar <santi@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > It may be ok and logical, but for me it is not what I want. Mmaybe I > don't really undestand what I want or is a crazy idea but here it is > anyway: > > Take a simple case with this two lines : > > matrix[a,b,c] > matrix{d,b,c} > > there is no space so the standard color-words does not help to > visualize that matrix, the b and c are not changed. > > What I currently do is to add some spaces: > > matrix[ a, b, c ] > matrix{ d, b, c } > > then the color-words at least says that "b, c" is unchanged. > > What I would like is that --color-words would act as adding this > spaces automatically (and even one after "matrix"). > > Or another way to think it could be: > > a) primary words are those with alphanumerics (or a regex) > b) secondary "words" are the other non-whitespaces characters (in this > case "[]{} and ," > c) whitespaces are cruft. Dscho and Thomas discussed and designed a way to mark "words look like this" (and anything that are not words are crufts), and Dscho further argues that it is Ok to discard crufts (which I think is fine). What you seem to want in this example is "there is no cruft other than whitespace, but there are different kinds of words". I do not think it is incompatible with the way crufts are discarded, but it may be incompatible with the way how words are identified. I would expect something like: [a-zA-Z0-9]+|[^ a-zA-Z0-9]+ should define your "two kinds of words". That is, a run of alnums is a word, and a run of non-alnums is a word, but "matrix[a" is not a word (it is a sequence of three words "matrix", "[" and "a"). -- 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