Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] Make boundary characters for --color-words configurable

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

"Ping Yin" [off-list ref] writes:

 > With following patch, the diff output becomes (i don't know which one is better)
 >
 > OpenOffice.org has {+a }user setting for defining the minimum length for
 > words to be hyphenated. By default the word length is counted from the
 > whole word - even for compound words. For example the {compound +}word
 > 'elokuvalippu' is {+considered }12 characters long. The word will be hyphenated like
 >  'elo-ku-va-lip-pu' in all cases when the minimum word length is set to
 >  12 or less. If the minimum length is set to 13 or more the word is not
 >  hyphenated at all.

 Yeah, after playing with it a bit, I realize that my original stated goal
 of not playing games with "newline suppression" goes very against what
 color-words, which is a word oriented diff, tries to achieve.  It appears
 that it is necessary to reintroduce suppressed_newline.

No matter how well we play with suppressed_newline, we still can't
achieve the best result by doing word diff between multiple minus
lines and multiple plus lines.

 ( i think the result of vimdiff can be considered as the best).

To achieve the best, we have to find the pairs of lines (one minus and
one plus for each pair) which most match each other, and then do the
word diff for each pair.


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Ping Yin