On Sun, 2019-08-11 at 17:53 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 03:04:02PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 12:48 PM William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If we are going to require a modeline, shouldn't we consider allowing > > > them by default so we can work out of the box instead of having to tweak > > > our editor settings? > > > > Perhaps we should. Is this really an important point for you? > > > > I don't think any of that needs to hold up Michał's proposal though. > > Let's move away from talking about alignment for a minute. > > The reason I responded originally was that his proposal is a bit > vague. It says that whitespace separates fields; that could be spaces > or tabs. whitespace can also be a completely valid character in > the notes field. So, since he says we can add more fields in the future, > you either have to escape whitespace in the notes field or quote the > field.
We can add new fields *in the middle*. That's why there's explicit header line. > Also, he may have used one whitespace character to separate fields in his > example, but the spec allows any number of whitespace characters. > awk does not have a problem with that. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
