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 -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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