From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 1 15:20:34 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from atlrel1.hp.com (atlrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F3637BCF4; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 15:20:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by atlrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 990FC1ECB; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:20:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0.1) id PAA02062; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 15:20:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38BDA5B9.A7CF3918@cup.hp.com> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 15:20:25 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en 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 Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 29 February 2000 at 21:28:46 -0800, Brian Feldman wrote: > > green 2000/02/29 21:28:46 PST > > > > Modified files: > > bin/dd dd.1 > > Log: > > After Bruce kindly explained the whole groff "sentence" idea to me, I've > > put the whitespace in the right place. > > 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 [snip] > OK, I'll risk starting another flame war. > Do we really need to revert to style guidelines that were probably > outmoded 15 years ago? [snip] > > Does that really make sense? I think it's time to reconsider style > and agree to change with the times. The advantage of having each sentence start on a new line is when looking at diffs. The diff will only show which sentences have changed instead of complete paragraphs. This can make a big difference for insertions and or deletions. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message