Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes: > I strongly dislike (3) because I find it to be a distraction from > producing good prose; I don't think sentence-by-sentence like that. > I also find that the way Emacs's VC mode displays diffs (called diff > "refinement" but I don't really understand why it's called that) means > that there aren't any issues with reviewing diffs, so it seems like > just working around a limitation of certain web based diff views?
Okay, no problem. I think of it primarily as working better with Git and patch, whose standard diff display and exchange tools work line-by-line, but I do realize it's often off-putting to people who haven't done a lot of work in that style. > I think that it is okay for the text of Policy to end up with a mix of > sentences ending with one space and two spaces depending on who the > original author of that particular segment was. > I would prefer if we allowed mass reformatting to use two spaces > (e.g. before doing a bunch of edits) but disallowed mass reformatting to > use one space, based on the idea that the majority of the text is > currently two spaces, but maybe this is too much my own personal > preference, so perhaps we should allow mass reformatting like that in > both directions of sections one is about to edit? I'm not entirely sure what you mean by mass formatting. Certainly I don't think we should go through and make whitespace-only changes. Right now, if I reflow a paragraph with M-q, that's going to change all the spacing after periods unless I reconfigure my editor. Maybe that counts as mass formatting? (It's limited to just that paragraph.) To be clear, I'm very happy to configure my editor and use two spaces after periods in Policy if you would prefer! I don't feel strongly about this, and I am continuing to use two spaces after periods in POD documentation for various reasons related to *roff formatting, so my editor and brain is capable of switching back and forth. I have a mild preference for not worrying about it, but if it would bother you enough to want to reformat it, I'm happy to just use two spaces. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
