From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Diff faces Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:20:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87tzoxqk2y.fsf@jurta.org> <87ir594b8f.fsf@jurta.org> <87lka46imj.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192504830 5356 80.91.229.12 (16 Oct 2007 03:20:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:20:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 16 05:20:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ihcyh-0003o5-LI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:20:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ihcya-0001L6-H4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:20:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhcyX-0001L1-JX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhcyV-0001Kh-Ny for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhcyV-0001Ke-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:20:07 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts5.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.25] helo=tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IhcyV-0006rj-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:20:07 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.53.192.75]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20071016032006.ZOVT17217.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home> for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1EA097FEC; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:20:05 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87lka46imj.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Tue\, 16 Oct 2007 02\:52\:20 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:80975 Archived-At: >> I like it to be finer than that. I agree that chars are a bit too fine, but >> it's rarely a problem. Basically, I was thinking of refining enough so as >> to treat "FooBar64" as 3 entities. >> >> Also I often like the fact that it does not ignore whitespace differences >> but I often would like it to ignore them, so I'd like to be able to choose. > Perhaps two new options will help selecting the necessary granularity and > whitespace to ignore. My guess is that the "FooBar64" granularity should be both fine enough for me and large enough to avoid the kind of bogus "correlation" between unrelated chars. So we'd only need a choice for whitespace. Stefan