Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes: > 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. Argh, antecedents. I meant that reading documents formatted as one sentence per line can be off-putting to people who haven't done that a lot. I got used to it a lot faster than I expected, but I know that not everyone has that experience. > 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. I'm just going to reconfigure my editor and try to stick to two spaces, given that. It's easy enough for me to do. Also, TIL about M-x repunctuate-sentences; thank you! -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
