From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rfa/i387] Eliminate HOST_*_FORMAT from i387-tdep.c
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 12:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yln16lrezg.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <npr8vzqq7q.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com>
Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com> writes:
> Mark Kettenis <kettenis@science.uva.nl> writes:
>> Oh, and I believe the GNU coding standards demand two spaces after a
>> full stop, even at the end of a comment.
> I didn't know that was part of the standard, but I can give the
> rationale:
> The Emacs forward- and backward-sentence commands (M-e and M-a) expect
> to see two spaces after a full stop, to help them distinguish a period
> after an abbreviation from a period marking the end of a sentence.
> It's really handy to have those commands work on comments.
Yup. < http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_23.html#SEC23 >, paragraph five.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) < http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-03 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-29 9:53 Andrew Cagney
2001-07-01 5:56 ` Mark Kettenis
2001-07-02 8:55 ` Jim Blandy
2001-07-03 12:26 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2001-07-04 12:18 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-04 14:13 ` Mark Kettenis
2001-07-06 5:52 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2001-07-06 6:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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