killing trailing white space
Sure.
one overlong line in the DVI output of standards.texi?
Hmm. I'd rather not hardwire a line break, in principle.
The patch avoids `@/' for the benefit of older texinfo
versions (which are still wide-spread).
But does that matter? The
Hi Karl,
* Karl Berry wrote on Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:46:29PM CEST:
one overlong line in the DVI output of standards.texi?
Hmm. I'd rather not hardwire a line break, in principle.
Yes, I can see the reason behind this.
The patch avoids `@/' for the benefit of older texinfo
* doc/make-stds.texi: Bump copyright year.
(Command Variables, Directory Variables): Fix spelling
`filesystem' - `file system'.
Got the ok from rms to apply this change (and to apply future typo-like
patches myself without bothering him, yay for that). So I
The Makefile.maint (that is more or less) shared between coreutils,
CPPI, Bison, and Autoconf, has a check to prefer the spelling of
`file system' over `filesystem'. Automake ships `make-stds.texi'.
I assume some consensus over this rule has been established?
OK to commit this trivial patch to
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OK to commit this trivial patch to fix the writing, so we can import
this back into Autoconf?
Let's have this fixed upstream instead. I'm CC'ing this to
bug-standards@gnu.org so that they can fix it.
POSIX uses file system (two words), and the GNU
`file system' over `filesystem'. Automake ships `make-stds.texi'.
I assume some consensus over this rule has been established?
I don't know about consensus, but I think rms decreed it many years ago :).
(Or maybe it was just file name, but anyway ...)
OK to commit this trivial patch
