Re: Katsumi Yamaoka's CVS update of gnus/lisp (73 files)

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>> in emacs-lisp-mode.  Your changes were so massive that it looked like
>> gnus code conventions had materialized.  Evidently that is not the
>> case.  Rather, it looks like one person's opinion of the "right thing"
>> spread throughout all the source code.
>
> I'm never a fascist, I'll accept a majority opinion.  I think
> removing garbages and reducing file size are good things, but if
> many people don't consider so, I'll never do that in future.

I think it's a good idea to do these things once in a while, to
"normalize" the whitespace in the files.  I've done so myself a
couple of times before.

It's much better to do it in one big gulp than to parcel out the
whitespace cleanups here and there, because that tends to hide which
changes are whitespace cleanups, and which are actual code changes.
So doing, say, a yearly total cleanup is quite nice.

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