From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jan 14 10:48:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from alsatian.cslab.vt.edu (alsatian.cslab.vt.edu [198.82.184.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7978415BF6; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 10:41:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (pineapple.cslab.vt.edu [198.82.184.58]) by alsatian.cslab.vt.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA14428; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:41:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200001141841.NAA14428@alsatian.cslab.vt.edu> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000113005736.F8876@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:41:42 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Nik Clayton Subject: Re: Patches I have up my sleeve Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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; > > ... > > > > > A random title > > ... > > Now, suppose you start thinking about adding a new section between the > end of the first and the beginning of the next . 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 -- 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