From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on archive.lwn.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.7 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by archive.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009BD7D2EF for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 13:57:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727981AbfFQN5S (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jun 2019 09:57:18 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:42952 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725995AbfFQN5S (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jun 2019 09:57:18 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A0DDC891; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 13:57:16 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 07:56:08 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Markus Heiser , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linux Doc Mailing List , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/14] docs: sphinx/kernel_abi.py: fix UTF-8 support Message-ID: <20190617075608.696cf037@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20190617061659.22596fc3@coco.lan> References: <62c8ffe86df40c90299e80619a1cb5d50971c2c6.1560477540.git.mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> <20190614161837.GA25206@kroah.com> <20190614132530.7a013757@coco.lan> <28aca947-4e88-7186-7f07-9a3ccb379649@darmarit.de> <20190617061659.22596fc3@coco.lan> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.3 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 06:16:59 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 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. Thanks, jon