Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:41:42 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Subject: Re: Patches I have up my sleeve Message-ID: <200001141841.NAA14428@alsatian.cslab.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000113005736.F8876@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
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On 13-Jan-00 Nik Clayton wrote: > [ cc'd to cvs@freebsd.org for some advice ] > > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 07:02:01AM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >> >> One, which impacts a lot of files per subdir (faq, handbook, etc) will >> >> remove all excessive whitespaces which were introduced by the sgmlmode >> >> of emacs. I consider this a bug in the editor and should be properly >> >> cleaned up. >> > >> >What sort of excessive whitespace? >> >> Just take a random file from the handbook and you will see a lot of of >> four spaces on line between tags. These lines should be empty instead >> of carrying four spaces. I am really thinking emacs sgml mode messed >> up. > > I know exactly how this has happened, having done it myself tonight. > > Go to a section of a .sgml file, something like this; > > ... > </sect3> > </sect2> > > <sect2> > <title>A random title</title> > > ... > > Now, suppose you start thinking about adding a new section between the > end of the first </sect2> and the beginning of the next <sect>. So you > move the cursor to be in between them, and hit TAB. Heh.. been there, done that. I think an automatic filter sounds like a good idea. I also can't think of any instance where it would break things. > We wouldn't even need to update all the files at once. A file will be > fixed automatically the first time it is committed to after we make this > change. > > CVSMeisters -- how feasible would something like this be for implementation > on freefall? I trust you bcc'd this to cvs@FreeBSD.org so they'd hear this? :) > N -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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