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Re: [MAINT/PATCH] ChangeLog et.al.: Revert whitespace changes
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Subject: Re: [MAINT/PATCH] ChangeLog et.al.: Revert whitespace changes
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 08:31:44 +1000
- CC: gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > More on this. The M-q (fill-paragraph) that I use (ok its old - 19.34.1
> > :-/) likes to prefix each line with:
> >
> > <TAB>* Makefile.in (CC_FOR_TARGET): Add new winsup directory
> > <SPACE><TAB>structure stuff to -L library search.
> > <TAB>(CXX_FOR_TARGET): Ditto.
> >
> > I suspect that another likes to indent it as:
> >
> > <TAB>* Makefile.in (CC_FOR_TARGET): Add new winsup directory<SPACE>
> > <TAB>structure stuff to -L library search.<SPACE>
>
> Emacs 20.5 uses the latter (which is TRT, IMHO).
>
> And while at that: perhaps it's a good idea to upgrade to Emacs 20 to
> get uniform format of the date entries in the ChangeLog's, if not for
> other good reasons (speed, features, etc.). You aren't scared by the
> Mule-hate, are you?
You mean run a version of emacs which has minor-version < major-version?
Scary! Besides, I like being able to search for ``Tue Apr 3 12:13:19
2000'', it works much better than 2000-04-03 ;-)
Andrew