From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russ Allbery 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 Message-id: References: <3B3CB299.5000100@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00030.html Jim Blandy writes: > Mark Kettenis 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/ >