From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: whitespace-only changes
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 10:04:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C3496F4-1496-4449-9508-6C2B7E7FD1E8@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1k8aul-0001mr-Mg@fencepost.gnu.org>
20 aug. 2020 kl. 05.06 skrev Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
> I am sure he knows what he's talking about, but it is unfortunate that
> we cannot fix bad indentation. Can't we correct this problem somehow?
At the very least we should always accept correction of misleading indentation. That is not noise, but fully equivalent to fixing wrong comments or bad naming, neither of which change the program as seen by the machine but do alter it in human eyes.
At the other end of the scale, I definitely share Lars's dim view of invisible changes (trimming end-of-line whitespace or transmuting tabs into spaces).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-20 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-20 3:06 whitespace-only changes Richard Stallman
2020-08-20 8:04 ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2020-08-20 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-20 13:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 14:54 ` David Engster
2020-08-21 3:33 ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-21 8:55 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-23 4:42 ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-20 20:50 ` Daniel Martín
2020-08-20 20:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 21:07 ` Daniel Martín
2020-08-21 13:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-22 3:51 ` Richard Stallman
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