Re: [MAINT/PATCH] ChangeLog et.al.: Revert whitespace changes

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > > I've just committed the attatched.  It reverts a string of arbitrary
> > > whitespace changes made to various files including ChangeLogs.
> > >
> > > For ChangeLogs, they should be prepend-only.
> >
> > Sorry, I don't understand some of these changes, like this one:
> >
> > > *************** Fri Mar 17 11:06:59 2000  Philippe De Mu
> > > *** 429,435 ****
> > >       * config/i386/tm-linux.h (I386_LINUX_SIGTRAMP): No need to define
> > >       this any more, since we're not enabling OS-specific code in a
> > >       OS-independent file.
> > > !
> > >   2000-03-16  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
> > >
> > >       * Makefile.in (go32-nat.o): Add prerequisites.
> > > --- 433,439 ----
> > >       * config/i386/tm-linux.h (I386_LINUX_SIGTRAMP): No need to define
> > >       this any more, since we're not enabling OS-specific code in a
> > >       OS-independent file.
> > > !
> > >   2000-03-16  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
> > >
> > >       * Makefile.in (go32-nat.o): Add prerequisites.
> >
> > The only change here is that in the new version, there's extra
> > whitespace in an otherwise empty line.  It's quite possible that some
> > editor (such as Emacs) removed the whitespace when somebody pressed
> > M-q to reformat the paragraph.
> 
> It is more than just M-q - I use that all the time and yet I don't
> commit arbitrary white space changes.  What I assume is happening is an
> editor (probably emacs) has has been configured to strip/modify white
> space changes in a arbitrary way when ever it touches a file.

More on this.  The M-q (fill-paragraph) that I use (ok its old - 19.34.1
:-/) likes to prefix each line with:

	<TAB>* Makefile.in (CC_FOR_TARGET): Add new winsup directory
	<SPACE><TAB>structure stuff to -L library search.
	<TAB>(CXX_FOR_TARGET): Ditto.

I suspect that another likes to indent it as:

	<TAB>* Makefile.in (CC_FOR_TARGET): Add new winsup directory<SPACE>
	<TAB>structure stuff to -L library search.<SPACE>

Since there is no requirement to use a specific change-log-mode (or even
emacs - ed is the editor of choice ..) we have to grin and bare this.

	Andrew