Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jun 2019 07:56:08 -0600 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 14/14] docs: sphinx/kernel_abi.py: fix UTF-8 support |
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On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 06:16:59 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> wrote:
> > No need to change, the emacs notation is also OK, see your link > > > > """or (using formats recognized by popular editors):""" > > > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/#defining-the-encoding > > > > I prefer emacs notation, this is also evaluated by many other editors / tools. > > The usage of emacs notation is something that we don't like at the > Linux Kernel. With ~4K developers per release, if we add tags to > every single editor people use, it would be really messy, as one > developer would be adding a tag and the next one replacing it by its > some other favorite editor's tag.
So "we" like a language-specific notation instead? That seems a little strange to me. Lots of things understand the Emacs notation, it doesn't seem like something that needs to be actively avoided here.
Thanks,
jon
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