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Re: ChangeLog fontifications
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: ChangeLog fontifications |
Date: |
Thu, 13 May 2004 17:56:23 -0400 |
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On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:37:55PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> This ChangeLog style is a typographic nightmare IMHO.
On the contrary, it looks quite nice. IMO.
In fact I find it more readable than the `traditional' format, as it provides
the same advantage for the human reader that it does for a parser: it makes
the type of a line obviously identifiable by looking for a token in the left
margin, where it's very easy to see.
[The alternative format you suggest, `(a)(b)(c)' does not provide any real
advantage for the reader -- embedded ") (" pairs are in fact _harder_ to
parse for a human than commas because they're busier, and less familiar.]
> What on earth was the reason to invent such a convention?
Because (1) it's more friendly to line-oriented parsers (like font-lock, but
also external tools [*]), and (2) it looks quite nice.
[*] Indeed, rather _more_ important for external tools, because many unix
scripting languages &c are quite line-oriented, more so that emacs is.
-Miles
--
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has to be us. -- Jerry Garcia
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, (continued)
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Alan Shutko, 2004/05/13
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Miles Bader, 2004/05/13
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/05/13
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/13
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Karl Eichwalder, 2004/05/13
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Miles Bader, 2004/05/14
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/05/14
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/05/14
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/05/14
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Sam Steingold, 2004/05/14
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/14