From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 08:21:59 -0500 From: quanstro@quanstro.net To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9 In-Reply-To: <45219fb00606090612p34781e45n@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 63d327f4-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri Jun 9 08:13:18 CDT 2006, viriketo@gmail.com wrote: > 2006/6/8, quanstro@quanstro.net : > > On Wed Jun 7 17:07:21 CDT 2006, viriketo@gmail.com wrote: > > > > acme and previously sam has done me well with all manner of badly formatted > > and ill-concieved c, c++, perl, pre-f77 fortran, etc. > Well, mostly I have strict rules about "your fixes must give MINIMAL > changes". So I'm not allowed changing any line (spacing, etc.) if I > the final code doesn't change. According to this rule, through the > years the code became a big mess. > So, I use gvim because I can control quite fine the spacing changes > with Undo/Redo, etc. > I don't think 'acme' would be better than gvim for me in this > situation, but I'm not an "accostumed" user of acme. acme has full undo/redo. but more to the point, why don't you write a script to strip whitespace and then diff your ws-stripped file against the ws-stripped baseline file. then apply the diff script to the original files? - erik