[rfa/i387] Eliminate HOST_*_FORMAT from i387-tdep.c

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Tue Jul 3 12:26:00 GMT 2001


Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com> writes:
> Mark Kettenis <kettenis@science.uva.nl> writes:

>> Oh, and I believe the GNU coding standards demand two spaces after a
>> full stop, even at the end of a comment.

> I didn't know that was part of the standard, but I can give the
> rationale:

> The Emacs forward- and backward-sentence commands (M-e and M-a) expect
> to see two spaces after a full stop, to help them distinguish a period
> after an abbreviation from a period marking the end of a sentence.
> It's really handy to have those commands work on comments.

Yup.  < http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_23.html#SEC23 >, paragraph five.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             < http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ >



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