Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 00:33:19 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, FreeBSD Documentation Project <doc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Two spaces OK Message-ID: <19991008003319.B8995@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <199910061903.PAA27697@server.baldwin.cx>; from John Baldwin on Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 03:03:50PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991006190821.37031T-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> <199910061903.PAA27697@server.baldwin.cx>
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On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 03:03:50PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On 06-Oct-99 Narvi wrote:
> >
> > If there is a decision that there should be two spaces after a
> > period,
> > trhen it is Ok by me. But all occurencies of just one period should
> > then
> > be corrected.
>
> If you don't mind, I'm content to see what Nik says on this one since
> he's the arbitrator for doc stuff.
I think we need to be a bit more relaxed here guys.
2 spaces is definitely the way to go for all new material. That includes
new documents and additions to existing documents.
For existing material, if you see that it's using 1 space, and you're
feeling particularly bored, then by all means correct it (remembering, of
course, that this is a whitespace commit, and should involve no content
changes).
It's not quite as simple as a sed script though -- you need to watch for
<programlisting>, <literallayout>, <screen>, and so on, and make sure that
they stay untouched. You could always use a sed script, then examine the
'cvs diff' output, and go and put back anything that shouldn't have been
touched. Myself, I tend to just use search/replace in Emacs, and bounce
on the "repeat-complex-command" key.
N
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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