From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: jblandy@mozilla.com, 58665@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58665: Indentation in lisp/emacs-lisp/syntax.el is wrong
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 13:39:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wmx77d7s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmkLVqyQTt8NJFmxMhMxCc9T8_hJqL0-xp2R2j+oTYPoBA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Sun, 3 Sep 2023 03:21:33 -0700)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2023 03:21:33 -0700
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 58665@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Jim Blandy <jblandy@mozilla.com> writes:
>
> > This code changes almost never. It's been like that since 2016. It
> > doesn't make sense to let it sit there with formatting that obscures
> > the structure of the code.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 10:57 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Jim Blandy <jblandy@mozilla.com>
> > > Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 10:23:30 -0700
> > >
> > > 2022-10-20 Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
> > >
> > > * lisp/emacs-lisp/syntax.el: Fix indentation in `syntax-ppss'.
> >
> > Thanks, but we don't like pure-whitespace changes. We fix these
> > issues when we change code around the places with wrong indentation.
>
> I agree that we should avoid making whitespace-only changes in general.
> Jim makes the point that readability counts. He also points out that
> this code changes so infrequently that we do not need to be overly
> worried about any annoying merge conflicts. I think these are valid
> points.
>
> So on balance, I'd be willing to make an exception and take this patch.
> If Eli is still not convinced, I think it would be better to close this
> bug and move on. I think we can all agree it's not worth spending
> energy discussing it further.
If you think this change could be useful, I won't object applying it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-03 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-20 17:23 bug#58665: Indentation in lisp/emacs-lisp/syntax.el is wrong Jim Blandy
2022-10-20 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-20 21:18 ` Jim Blandy
2023-09-03 10:21 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-03 10:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-09-03 10:45 ` Stefan Kangas
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