On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 18:09 Taylor R Campbell < campbell+netbsd-source-change...@mumble.net> wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 02:05:25 +0000 > > From: Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd-source-change...@mumble.net> > > > > > Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 00:23:33 -0000 (UTC) > > > From: chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) > > > > > > Yes, this is indeed a lot better. I prefer though: > > > > > > MAN+= \ > > > bar.7 \ > > > foo.7 > > > > > > It is faster to parse, involves less typing, whitespace is cleaner. > > > > This one doesn't have the same pattern for every line, so it makes > > merging and sorting harder -- do M-x sort-lines on the content lines, > > and you'll come up with: > > > > MAN+= \ > > foo.7 > > bar.7 \ > > err, obviously I meant this example the other way; if it had been > written as: > > MAN+= \ > foo.7 \ > bar.7 > > as the natural order of metasyntactic variables (foo, bar), then doing > M-x sort-lines on the content lines would yield: > > MAN+= \ > bar.7 > foo.7 \ I find it better to have MAN+= bar.7 MAN+= foo.7 Since a grep for 'MAN.*foo' will produce meaningful results Sorting, and initial entry are once-only operations, searching happens everywhere all the time. > > >
