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Date:      Wed, 31 May 2000 22:25:32 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Jim Mock <jim@luna.cdrom.com>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: docs/18789: [PATCH] bad link in the handbook
Message-ID:  <20000531222532.B265@parish>
In-Reply-To: <20000531165355.A67968@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 04:53:55PM %2B0100
References:  <200005242240.PAA26509@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000525000150.I232@parish> <20000524163256.A460@luna.cdrom.com> <20000525004113.J232@parish> <20000524164945.A717@luna.cdrom.com> <20000527165220.B46877@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <20000528234432.B233@parish> <20000530232600.A98786@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <20000530233949.F229@parish> <20000531165355.A67968@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>

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On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 04:53:55PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:39:50PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:26:01PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 11:44:32PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > > > > I see Jim's closed this PR without making a change, so I'll do so.  But
> > > > > for reference, Mark's patch included a whitespace change,
> > > > 
> > > > Really? Where? I've just looked at the diff in the PR and I can't see
> > > > it.
> > > 
> > > Took me longer than expected to do the commit -- tried on Sunday, but got 
> > > conflicts, and didn't have a chance to resync my CVS tree until just now.
> > > 
> > > It's in there now.
> > > 
> > 
> > No, I meant where is the white space change.
> 
> The original had
> 
>        ........................................... for ease of reference
> 
> Yours has
> 
>        ........................................................... for
>        ease of reference .............................................
> 
> If you look at what I've committed, it extends past column 80 in this 
> commit, but it means the translators only have to look at one changed
> line with my change, whereas yours (as you can see in the diff in the
> PR) shows three changed lines.
> 
> Make sense?
> 

Yes, I didn't realize that changing line wrapping (which will happen
when you add/remove words counted as whitespace changes.

Anyway, I'm blaming RMS 'coz he wrote Earwax ;)

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