On 04/09/2011 03:02 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > There was a new use of "can not" in coreutils despite > my having performed this transformation before. > Autoconf is the same: one current/new violation, > in spite of applying the fix before. > I noticed that James Youngman recently fixed one in findutils > and there are several here in gnulib. > > With this, new offenses will be less likely. > >>From 2ba828d7b521d831648a4d0926d7885705cf1d59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 22:58:06 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] maint.mk: prohibit use of "can not" > > * top/maint.mk (sc_prohibit_can_not): New rule. > Writing "can not" (rather than "cannot") is too common. Prohibit it.
A recent libvirt patch demonstrated that this rule currently misses "can\n not"; should sc_prohibit_can_not be rewritten in the same style as sc_prohibit_doubled_word to also catch violations that are currently hidden by line-wrapping? -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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