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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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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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