Re: git: 29cbe944e928 - main - CONTRIBUTING.md: minor changes

On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 10:00 AM John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 7/9/23 8:06 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 12:15 AM Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 09:23:35PM +0000, Warner Losh wrote:
> >>> commit 29cbe944e9287c2e61928c456512d3990aaffdaa
> >>>
> >>>    CONTRIBUTING.md: minor changes
> >>>
> >>>    - Misspelled GitHub
> >>>    - angle bracket not escaped correctly
> >>>    - Double white spaces
> >>
> >> You've removed them, while they are typically used after full stops
> >> as texts render better with them unless you're using proportional
> >> font.
> >>
> >
> > It's the modern way....   but  WuerfelDev also had a commit that backed
> > that part out that I didn't fold in...
> > I'm still torn since I see so many conflicting things about it :(
> >
> > I'm leaning towards putting them back.
>
> FWIW, I still use monospace fonts for code and thus still use double spaces
> for the reason Alexey stated.  Reading code in proportional fonts (where
> spacing is naturally wider at sentence breaks) is not really viable with
> style(9) which mixes tabs with spaces for indentation.
>

OK. I've just pushed the other half of 788 where the submitter backed out
the removal
of the double spaces. And now I know why they should remain.

Warner