Subject: Re: [PATCH take 3 0/4] color-words improvements

From: Teemu Likonen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:56:07 +0200

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.