--- colordiff.orig	2009-02-20 10:49:15.634497000 -0500
+++ colordiff	2009-02-20 10:49:03.614400000 -0500
@@ -418,8 +418,8 @@
         }
     }
     elsif ($diff_type eq 'wdiff') {
-        $_ =~ s/(\[-[^]]*?-\])/$file_old$1$colour{off}/g;
-        $_ =~ s/(\{\+[^]]*?\+\})/$file_new$1$colour{off}/g;
+        $_ =~ s/(\[-([^-]*(-[^]])?)*-\])/$file_old$1$colour{off}/g;
+        $_ =~ s/(\{\+([^+]*(\+[^}])?)*\+\})/$file_new$1$colour{off}/g;
     }
     elsif ($diff_type eq 'debdiff') {
         $_ =~ s/(\[-[^]]*?-\])/$file_old$1$colour{off}/g;