From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org>, Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: makeinfo-info.el - use Info-mode with makeinfo-buffer
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 08:25:50 +0200 (IST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1021202082444.29205L-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buo7ketx89f.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>
On 2 Dec 2002, Miles Bader wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> > > some diff programs support -w and -b to ignore whitespace changes.
> >
> > Yes, but then Patch could choke on such a diff. So please don't.
>
> It depends on whether the patch is intended for applying or for
> explanation.
Yes, of course. But some people try to study the patch by applying it.
> I think in this case it was just intended to show the
> proposed changes. Perhaps the safest thing is to send both patches --
> e.g. the `-wb' patch first for humans to read, and then the real patch
> as an attachment or something...
That would be nice, but it sounds like excessive requirement.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-02 6:25 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <E18Ddmd-0007x2-00@fencepost.gnu.org>
2002-11-29 23:21 ` makeinfo-info.el - use Info-mode with makeinfo-buffer Kevin Ryde
2002-11-30 6:35 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-12-02 5:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-02 6:08 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-02 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-12-02 20:54 ` Kevin Ryde
2002-12-03 14:58 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-04 1:37 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-04 6:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-04 6:35 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-04 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-04 19:19 ` David Masterson
2002-12-04 20:00 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-02 16:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-12-02 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
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