On 02/21/2012 06:05 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > 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 "#".
Yes, picking another character would work as a compromise. Even a line of '-------' is a visual separator; only '<', '=', and '>' give me heartburn in the context of merge conflict resolution. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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