From owner-cvs-all Tue Mar 7 12: 5:56 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E0C337B53F; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:05:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (dcs@p27-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.92]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id FAA21371; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 05:05:31 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38C560BE.92560402@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 05:04:15 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Brian Feldman , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: style (was: cvs commit: src/bin/dd dd.1) References: <200003010528.VAA26252@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000302092605.Q87829@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > OK, I'll risk starting another flame war. Do we really need to revert > to style guidelines that were probably outmoded 15 years ago? People > were obviously actively leaving them already. As I understand it, the > main objection to writing text "normally" is that it produces less > repo bloat. Instead, the guidelines insist on a line break for every It also makes things easier for translators if you break it at sentences. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message