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Date:      Fri, 8 Oct 1999 18:03:53 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>, Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, FreeBSD Documentation Project <doc@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Two spaces OK
Message-ID:  <19991008180353.I78191@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991008103332.A28390@rucus.ru.ac.za>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.991006190821.37031T-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> <199910061903.PAA27697@server.baldwin.cx> <19991008003319.B8995@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19991008103332.A28390@rucus.ru.ac.za>

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On Friday,  8 October 1999 at 10:33:32 +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> On Fri 1999-10-08 (00:33), Nik Clayton wrote:
>> 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.
>
> On a separate note - I can't see any representitive difference
> between:
>
> <programlisting>#include "foo"
> blah
> </programlisting>
>
> and
>
> <programlisting>
> #include "foo"
> blah
> </programlisting>
>
> And the second is much more readable... (same with <screen>)

FWIW, I much prefer the second form.

Greg
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