On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 15:34, Tom Lane wrote: > Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 14:58, Josh Berkus wrote: > >> It would be more accurate to say that we have not identified a WYSWYG tool > >> which does not mess up the source. There may be one, it would just take a > >> fair amount of testing to find it. > > > Is this strictly a question of indentation, or one of actually mangling > > tags and such? > > What we need is something that does not change regions of the file that > the user did not intend to modify. I think horizonal-white-space-only > changes could be worked around if the user is careful to use diff > --ignore-space-change when submitting the patch, but I suspect that an > editor that thinks it can mangle whitespace will also figure that it can > change line boundaries, and then diff will never be able to extract any > signal from that noise.
Ahhhh. I see. Well, I don't mind teaching myself some docbook, but the first time I looked at adding to the docs I was overwhelmed with what I didn't know, and didn't even see a starting point. I'll look in the appendices and see what I can see. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
