On 02/21/2012 01:39 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/21/2012 05:34 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> * NEWS: Get rid of form-feed characters (^L) throughout the file. >> Use separator lines instead (composed by 76 '=' characters), or >> just an extra blank lines for older less verbose entries (those >> predating the 1.8 release). > > Why? > Because '^L' doesn't visually separate different NEWS sections clearly enough (and least, it doesn't for me). Which is annoying and confusing whenever I need to visually scan NEWS.
> I _like_ ^L as a separator - it is an easy character to search for. > > Whereas lines of ==== cause spurious hits when searching for '===' when > solving a merge conflict. > This is a sensible objection, which I didn't thought of. We could use another character for the separator lines: "~" maybe, or "#". > I'm not opposed to the change if you have a good reason, but I don't yet > see that good reason. > The reason is that '^L' doesn't visually separate different NEWS sections clearly enough *for me* (as I've sad above). Not sure if this is a good enough reason to warrant this change (even if I'd hope so) ... WDYT? Regards, Stefano
