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From: Christian Faulhammer <fauli@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Clarify line continuation in make.defaults
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:01:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100113220130.6e2f22c4@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2e0007041001131040l7af9e61fsd0e5618305f99a23@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi,

Jacob Godserv <jacobgodserv@gmail.com>:
> The wording on how a quoted string might continue over more than one
> line is only barely enough to grasp its meaning. It requires some deep
> logical thought to figure out what's actually meant here, so I've
> added a little bit of extra explanation.

 That's fine by me.  If you prepare the patch with git format-patch,
you would be able to see your name in the VCS system.  We will wait for
comments from others, thanks for your contribution.

> I found that nano set to COLUMNS=107 produced word wrapping similar to
> the rest of the file, but let me know if I missed other formatting
> rules I ought to know about.

 A thing I would like to talk about it.  Why is the line wrap the way
it is?  Emacs always complains and he has the authority regarding line
wrap.

V-Li

-- 
Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-13 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-13 18:40 [gentoo-pms] Clarify line continuation in make.defaults Jacob Godserv
2010-01-13 21:01 ` Christian Faulhammer [this message]
2010-01-17  4:07   ` [gentoo-pms] Fill column (was: Re: Clarify line continuation in make.defaults) Ulrich Mueller
2010-01-17  8:47     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-01-17  9:30       ` [gentoo-pms] Fill column Christian Faulhammer
2010-01-17  9:50         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-01-17 10:01           ` Christian Faulhammer
     [not found]             ` <82dd739f1001170311o14aafd13n8a140fc4c9ab487@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]               ` <20100117142956.125b2e18@gentoo.org>
2010-01-17 14:36                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
     [not found]                   ` <19283.12619.238117.318780@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>
2010-01-17 17:53                     ` Ciaran McCreesh
     [not found]   ` <2e0007041001141034w25cea618r3a0119b748aa3362@mail.gmail.com>
2010-01-17 11:16     ` [gentoo-pms] Clarify line continuation in make.defaults Christian Faulhammer

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