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Re: configure --help has incorrectly formatted help
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: configure --help has incorrectly formatted help |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Oct 2001 03:40:25 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
> Date: 25 Oct 2001 12:29:12 +0200
>
> Paul> C is older and (like Cobol and Fortran) the tradition is
> Paul> fixed-width. I have used C with varying-width fonts with some
> Paul> success, though never with the GNU indenting style (which isn't
> Paul> quite right for varying-width fonts).
>
> Precisely! Then, what in just a few words, how does it differ?
Basically, don't assume that things line up unless all the preceding
characters are equal. For example, instead of:
while (a
&& b
&& c)
{
dddddd (f,
g);
}
you write something like this:
while (a
&& b
&& c)
{
dddddd (
f,
g);
}
Here the "a" and "b" just happen to line up in a fixed-width font
(which is even nicer than GNU style in my opinion, as they are at the
same syntactic level), but that's accidental.
The style I actually used was more K&R style, but I've tried to make
this example as close to GNU style as possible.