Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264965AbTFCPDD (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:03:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265038AbTFCPDD (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:03:03 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:56742 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264965AbTFCPDC (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:03:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 08:16:17 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Henning Schmiedehausen Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Question about style when converting from K&R to ANSI C. Message-ID: <20030603151617.GH20413@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Henning Schmiedehausen , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <1054446976.19557.23.camel@spc> <20030601132626.GA3012@work.bitmover.com> <1054519757.161606@palladium.transmeta.com> <20030603123256.GG1253@admingilde.org> <20030603124501.GB13838@suse.de> <20030603133925.GG20413@holomorphy.com> <1054651445.25694.70.camel@forge.intermeta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1054651445.25694.70.camel@forge.intermeta.de> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 918 Lines: 24 On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 04:44:05PM +0200, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: > The footnote was a non-native language speakers' attempt at self-irony. > If normal people think about development environments beyond vi, they > would consider VisualStudio an improvement. Or eclipse. > Trust me, "whitespace" or "tabs" are the smallest of your problems > there. > Ah well, silly me, trying humour on LKLM. ;-) > Regards > Henning We're not normal people. We're UNIX kernel hackers. We often do things in crusty old ways. Dead serious. Mandating emacs and/or some UNIX-based Visual C++ workalike in order to cope with utter garbage code formatting is not going to fly. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/