Re: edacf4b4824a - main - UPDATING: fix a typo, adjust a white space

On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 10:47 PM Ravi Pokala <rpokala@freebsd.org> wrote:

> No, there was definitely a typo: "chagned" is not a word in English.
>
> As for the white space, that's a different issue, and I'm staying away
> from that bikeshed.
>

UPDATING strongly prefers two spaces for hysterical raisins... I mean
historical reasons.
When it started in 1998 it was very far from a settled issue, and a bit of
a fringe position
in unix community...

Wraner


> -Ravi (rpokala@)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <owner-src-committers@freebsd.org <mailto:
> owner-src-committers@freebsd.org>> on behalf of Alexey Dokuchaev <
> danfe@freebsd.org <mailto:danfe@freebsd.org>>
> Date: Saturday, August 19, 2023 at 20:04
> To: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@freebsd.org <mailto:
> grahamperrin@freebsd.org>>
> Cc: <src-committers@freebsd.org <mailto:src-committers@freebsd.org>>, <
> dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org <mailto:dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>>,
> <dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org <mailto:dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
> >>
> Subject: Re: git: edacf4b4824a - main - UPDATING: fix a typo, adjust a
> white space
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 05:00:32PM +0000, Graham Perrin wrote:
> > commit edacf4b4824af3630a953eb1080baf9c46f176de
> >
> > UPDATING: fix a typo, adjust a white space
> >
> > diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
> > index 705ca6431a32..b818d4dc8d29 100644
> > --- a/UPDATING
> > +++ b/UPDATING
> > @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 14.x IS SLOW:
> > configuration.
> >
> > Note that the early x86 BIOS bootloader (i.e., boot0sio) does not
> > - support rates above 9600 bps and is not chagned. boot0sio users may
> > + support rates above 9600 bps and is not changed. boot0sio users may
>
>
> There's no typo. We prefer to format texts designed to be viewed on the
> terminal screen using double spaces between sentenses because they look
> better with monospaced fonts. We're not enforcing this, but at least we
> should not pessimize existing formatting when it's correct.
>
>
> ./danfe
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