Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:02:33 -0700 | From | Eric Biggers <> | Subject | Re: [man-pages PATCH v3] statx.2, open.2: document STATX_DIOALIGN |
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Hi Alejandro,
On Sat, Oct 08, 2022 at 03:56:22AM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > +If none of the above is available, then direct I/O support and alignment > > Please use semantic newlines. > > See man-pages(7): > Use semantic newlines > In the source of a manual page, new sentences should be > started on new lines, long sentences should be split into > lines at clause breaks (commas, semicolons, colons, and > so on), and long clauses should be split at phrase bound‐ > aries. This convention, sometimes known as "semantic > newlines", makes it easier to see the effect of patches, > which often operate at the level of individual sentences, > clauses, or phrases.
I tried to do this in v4. It seems very arbitrary, though, so if you want further changes to the newlines I recommend just making them when committing the patch.
Note that a better way to review changes to text is to do a word diff instead of a line diff.
- Eric
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