From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] diff: add --word-diff option that generalizes --color-words Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 11:20:03 +0200 Message-ID: <201004061120.04060.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: <201004051220.47400.trast@student.ethz.ch> <7v6345pwjw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , Johannes Schindelin , Eelis van der Weegen , Paul Mackerras , Miles Bader To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 06 11:20:37 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nz4xV-0004I0-R8 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:20:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752268Ab0DFJUK (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2010 05:20:10 -0400 Received: from gwse.ethz.ch ([129.132.178.237]:1844 "EHLO gwse.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751642Ab0DFJUI (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2010 05:20:08 -0400 Received: from CAS01.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.235) by gws00.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.237) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.234.1; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 11:20:06 +0200 Received: from thomas.localnet (129.132.153.233) by mail.ethz.ch (129.132.178.227) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.234.1; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 11:20:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop; KDE/4.4.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <7v6345pwjw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > > There is one difference between other uses of colors and color-words, but > I can imagine that ordinary people may not have even realized nor thought > about it. > > To people who are somewhat but not completely color-challenged (like > myself), it still helps to paint hunk headers in a color that is different > from the body text to make the boundary of each hunk more visible. Even > without the perception of exact color/hue, the contrast alone helps in > that case. I see now. My apologies for not thinking of that case! I'll make a new patch. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch