Paul Richards wrote:

> Mark Ovens wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 02:33:44PM -0400, Will Andrews wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 12:59:29AM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > > > Is there any reason why this is unacceptable and could not be committed?
> > >
> > > Because it can be done with an awk/sed script?
> > >
> >
> > I'll forget about it then. I only did it because I was fed up with
> > manually editing the output so it was tidier in e-mails and PRs. Like
> > I said, it's not important.
>
> I think this might be one of those rare cases where adding another
> option is more efficient than using tools. Running awk/sed to correct
> the formatting is overkill when a few printfs in the code would do it
> much more efficiently.

Introduction of incompatible among others BSD/*nix variants changes in commonly
used tools is evil from any point of view (IMO).

-Maxim




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