[chora] small bug

Mathieu Arnold arn_mat@club-internet.fr
Thu, 01 Mar 2001 02:40:29 +0100



Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:08:00AM +0100, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> >
> > it's getting better all the time :)
> > just one thing, say, i have 3 spaces somewhere in a line that are used
> > to make it render better, well, with this code, it would result in :
> > "   ", so, we could do a :
> 
> Yup, good point - applied.
> 
> What do people think of the '-p' option to diff btw?  I find that
> it generates very unreliable output for the function header 90%
> of the time, even in C modules.  Should be disable it?  Could just
> make it an option disabled by default I guess, but I can't see the
> use for it.

it's the stuff that gets the thing on the "line XXX ......." ?
well, i haven't used it with C code, just perl :)
but with perl, it's useful, it helps know where you are (when you do
readable perl)
after a small check on inn and postgresql source tree, i find it
interesting and useful when trying to guess what the hell this diff's
doing :)

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Mathieu Arnold