From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:29:40 +0200 Message-ID: <87si5dpr9n.fsf@gnu.org> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhb82qxc.fsf@gmail.com> <878u78b3hg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9lwyv33.fsf@gmail.com> <561C368F.6010306@cs.ucla.edu> <87oag3xb2i.fsf@gmail.com> <561D241E.1010902@cs.ucla.edu> <87vbaaagr5.fsf@gmail.com> <86io6amqhd.fsf@gmail.com> <06472760353f91fb2b6a1e427e954a70@mail.iq.pl> <874mhtra55.fsf@gnu.org> <87pp0h4qr9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444825899 6987 80.91.229.3 (14 Oct 2015 12:31:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 12:31:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?Q?Przemys=C5=82aw?= Wojnowski , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 14 14:31:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmLDE-0007Sz-75 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:31:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42109 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmLDC-0004rz-WB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 08:31:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40887) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmLBj-0004hu-Qc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 08:29:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmLBi-0003gd-SK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 08:29:47 -0400 Original-Received: from nsmtp.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.14]:46591) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmLBe-0003fu-7d; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 08:29:42 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nsmtp.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C70FF239F71; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:29:40 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de Original-Received: from nsmtp.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nsmtp.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sPZB2ke0E6Du; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:29:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.64.15]) by nsmtp.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:29:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from thinkpad-t440p (dhcp66.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.71.66]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CC5091A8303; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:29:40 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Followup-To: David Kastrup , =?utf-8?Q?Przemys=C5=82aw?= Wojnowski , emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87pp0h4qr9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:46:18 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.26.64.14 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:191555 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: >> OTOH, they reduce the helpfulness version control offers to new and >> old developers. I.e., it's good when "git blame" shows you the last >> changes which actually changed the code, and switching "char const *" >> to "const char *" or vice versa are no real changes. > > On the other hand, the blame for declarations is mostly less > interesting than the blame for the actual use of such variables, so > the attribution damage is not all that important in this case. On yet another hand, the declaration might be the right-hand side of an assignment with an extremely complex left-hand side. >> In the same vein, it's of course good to have one consistent >> indentation style, > > git blame -w > > helps skipping across spacing changes. Yes, I know. But I'm assuming the default values of `vc-*-annotate-switches' / `magit-blame-arguments'. Oh, for the latter "-w" is actually the default. Bye, Tassilo