On Sun, 2019-08-11 at 17:53 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 03:04:02PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 12:48 PM William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > If we are going to require a modeline, shouldn't we consider allowing
> > > them by default so we can work out of the box instead of having to tweak
> > > our editor settings?
> >
> > Perhaps we should. Is this really an important point for you?
> >
> > I don't think any of that needs to hold up Michał's proposal though.
>
> Let's move away from talking about alignment for a minute.
>
> The reason I responded originally was that his proposal is a bit
> vague. It says that whitespace separates fields; that could be spaces
> or tabs. whitespace can also be a completely valid character in
> the notes field. So, since he says we can add more fields in the future,
> you either have to escape whitespace in the notes field or quote the
> field.

We can add new fields *in the middle*.  That's why there's explicit
header line.

> Also, he may have used one whitespace character to separate fields in his
> example, but the spec allows any number of whitespace characters.
>

awk does not have a problem with that.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny