Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 02/11] ref-filter: add 'colornext' atom

From: Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:30:28 +0200

Eric Sunshine <[email-masked]> writes:

> Also, please explain here and in the commit message why this highly
> specialized colorizer ('colornext'), is needed even though a more
> general purpose one ('color') is already available.

It is needed in the current form to allow
%(colornext:blue)%(ifexists:[%s]) to color only the replacement of %s
and not the [].

But I now think that this would be more elegantly solved by Junio's
%(if) %(endif) idea:

  %(if:atom) [ %(color:blue)%(atom)%(color:reset) ] %(endif)

(I added spaces for clarity)

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Matthieu Moy
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