Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo beeping at me!

[Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>]

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maillog: 26/11/2004-10:17:34(+0000): Ciaran McCreesh types
> On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:25:10 +0900 Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>
> wrote:
> | maillog: 25/11/2004-19:19:27(+0000): Ed Grimm types
> | > On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> | > 
> | > If you really think that in-line docs are ugly, use vim(1), and
> | > automagically fold them out of your view (:help foldexpr, although
> | > this can be set to happen in the eclass syntax file).  I suspect
> | > that most of the people who only occasionally work with the
> | > eclasses, and those who are just starting to use the eclasses, would
> | > find them more useful than ugly.
> | 
> | I have nothing against in-line docs in general. I simply had trouble
> | imagining it in the bash case.
> | 
> | What about using perldoc itself? Simply prepend every doc line with a
> | '#', then run
> | 
> | awk '/^#/ { sub("#",""); print }
> 
> In bash? How would that work?

I imagined

#=item blah blah
# more POD
# and more
# and more
#=cut

> Here's another possibility:
> 
> # {{{ doc
> # whatever format we decide upon
> # blah blah blah
> # }}}
> 
> Doesn't screw up normal comments, really easy to find and process, easy
> to turn into folds in the editor :)

Sounds great. Now all that's left is to agree upon the format and write
the converter. Oh, and my favorite -- a GLEP maybe? (no, I'm not
sarcastic; just in a good mood ;) ).

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