Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] --color-words: Make non-word characters configurable

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 23:45:14 -0700

Ping Yin <[email-masked]> writes:

> A more sensible implementation is to use 'insert' instead of 'replace'.
> Say, to insert a line break between runs of word characters and non-word
> characters or between non-word characters.
>
> That is, "foo>=bar" will be rewritten as "foo\n>\n=\nbar" instead of
> "foo\n\nbar".

Hmmmm.

I am not sure if/why you would want a separator between '>' and '=' in
that example.  Shouldn't that be "foo <sep> >= <sep> bar"?