Re: [PATCH 6/8] gitweb: Highlight interesting parts of diff

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Michal Kiedrowicz wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> > > Anyway I have send to git mailing list a patch series, which in one
> > > of patches adds esc_html_match_hl($str, $regexp) to highlight
> > > matches in a string.  
> 
> Yeah, I saw that but after seeing that they accept different arguments
> I decided to leave them alone.
> 
> > > Your esc_html_mark_range(), after a
> > > generalization, could be used as underlying "engine".
> > > 
> > > Something like this, perhaps (untested):
> 
> I think I'll leave it to you after merging both these series to
> master :)
 
Yes, you are right.  Let's do it when we actually need it.

[...]
> > >    # Highlight selected fragments of string, using given CSS class,
> > >    # and escape HTML.  It is assumed that fragments do not overlap.
> > >    # Regions are passed as list of pairs (array references).
> > >    sub esc_html_hl {
[...]
> > Actually we can accomodate both operating on string and operating on
> > array of characters in a single subroutine.  Though it can be left for
> > later commit, anyway...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland