Regarding AsciiDoctor and long lines
Sergio Carlavilla
carlavilla at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 12 17:16:42 UTC 2021
On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 18:09, Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <debdrup at freebsd.org>
wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 03:09:35PM +0100, Sergio Carlavilla wrote:
> >On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 13:45, Marc Fonvieille <blackend at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Le 10.02.2021 17:03, Daniel Ebdrup Jensen a écrit :
> >> > Yeah, I'm perfectly fine with doing it like how manual pages work, ie.
> >> > the one-sentence-per-line workflow, if I understand it.
> >> >
> >>
> >> One sentence per line makes the read of diff/commit logs really
> >> difficult. I gave up reading the commit logs because of that.
> >> It's really a pain to find what changed without even talking about the
> >> edition of a long non-wrapped line in an editor.
> >> Some languages are very verbose, so we would end with very long lines.
> >> For a such change seems so backward.
> >>
> >> > I'll be re-working the handbook/x11 chapter to that at some point. :)
> >> >
> >>
> >> Please don't.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Marc
> >>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I know that this approach it’s causing some confusion with the diffs
> tools.
> >But instead of using a different way that recommended from the AsciiDoctor
> >team I think we should try to focus on getting a solution in the diff
> tools.
> >
> >Maybe we can talk with the AsciiDoctor team.
> >
> >Bye.
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Marc does have a point, which I think is quite valid. A lot of people do
> reviews of code in the email they're sent, where - at least for the
> commits, it's inlined - and pursuant to discussions about this
> elsewhere, that doesn't seem likely to be changing any time soon.
>
> If diffs were attachments with the text/x-patch or text/x-diff
> mime-type, it'd be up to peoples MUA and possibly their .mailcap as to
> how it should be opened, but that's not something that's doable with the
> current setup.
>
> So I do think wrapping to 72 columns is the better option here, if we
> want to retain the broadest review possibilities.
>
> Yours,
> Daniel Ebdrup Jensen
>
Hi,
Ok, if we use this approach.
What are we gonna do with:
Headings
Unordered list
Ordered list
Images
Include macro
AsciiDoc variables
Custom macros
And I need to test classes and links.
Bye.
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