Re: [PATCH 14/14] docs: sphinx/kernel_abi.py: fix UTF-8 support

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>]

Em Mon, 17 Jun 2019 07:56:08 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:

> On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 06:16:59 -0300
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > > No need to change, the emacs notation is also OK, see your link
> > > 
> > >    """or (using formats recognized by popular editors):"""
> > > 
> > >    https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/#defining-the-encoding
> > > 
> > > I prefer emacs notation, this is also evaluated by many other editors / tools.    
> > 
> > The usage of emacs notation is something that we don't like at the
> > Linux Kernel. With ~4K developers per release, if we add tags to
> > every single editor people use, it would be really messy, as one
> > developer would be adding a tag and the next one replacing it by its
> > some other favorite editor's tag.  
> 
> So "we" like a language-specific notation instead?  That seems a little
> strange to me.  Lots of things understand the Emacs notation, it doesn't
> seem like something that needs to be actively avoided here.

From my side, I don't have any strong preference. Just saying that
people usually complain when e-macs or vim specific tags appear at the
Kernel. That's why I would prefer an editor-agnostic macro.

It won't make any difference for me, anyway, as the editors I use
don't recognize it.

Whatever you want is OK to me, provided that we use the same notation on
all Sphinx extensions... right now there's a mix of notations.

Thanks,
Mauro