Hello, Russ Allbery [08/Feb 8:58am -08] wrote: > 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.
Oh, I work in that style all the time, indeed it's my main working style (we're still only e-mailing patches around on emacs-devel). It's when it comes to writing and editing the files that I find it harmful. >> 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.) Yes, that's what I meant by mass reformatting -- changing all the sentences in a paragraph, before/while actually editing 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. If I was editing a paragraph intensively, I might first use 'M-x repunctuate-sentences' to switch it over to using two spaces. If I was making minor changes I probably wouldn't feel any need to do that. I do have a mild personal preference for you and any contributor to use two spaces. But I would never actually ask someone to change their patch so that it did that. So if it is easy for you to reconfigure your editor, then I won't deny that I would appreciate it, but otherwise I am happy to continue mixing the two styles depending on who authored some text. -- Sean Whitton
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