From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: Harmful LESS flags Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:21:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87tx9ia5zq.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <4dc69237123e8962b2b2b901692ea78e.id@mailtor> <87lhuvb9kr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: d9ba@mailtor.net, git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 24 21:21:52 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WdPDT-0004AB-Fc for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:21:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751878AbaDXTVq (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:21:46 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:52686 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751817AbaDXTVo (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:21:44 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51725 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WdPDL-0002x0-49; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:21:43 -0400 Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 14CE1E0995; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:21:13 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:02:04 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: > Traditionally, because the tool grew in a context of being used in a > project whose participants are at least not malicious, always having > to be on the lookout for fear of middle-of-line tabs hiding bad > contents near the right edges of lines has never been an issue. My beef is not with "hiding bad contents" but with "hiding contents". It makes the output useless for seeing what is actually happening as soon as the option starts having an effect. -- David Kastrup