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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Lindent: Handle missing indent gracefully
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:37:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150710143732.108f19c660402c8dedc18263@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436547847.24866.50.camel@perches.com>

On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 10:04:07 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> > Le Friday 10 July 2015 __ 04:51 -0700, Joe Perches a __crit :
> > > On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 13:47 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > > If indent is not found, bail out immediately instead of spitting
> > > > random shell script error messages.
> > > 
> > > OK, but can't we just delete Lindent instead?
> > 
> > Because...?
> 
> It's just not very useful in today's development space.

I've very occasionally used Lindent.  It's useful if the input is an
utter mess.  You feed it through Lindent as a first pass then get in and
do the remainder by hand.

It can be less work than doing the whole conversion by hand.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-10 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-10 11:47 [PATCH] Lindent: Handle missing indent gracefully Jean Delvare
2015-07-10 11:51 ` Joe Perches
2015-07-10 13:36   ` Jean Delvare
2015-07-10 17:04     ` Joe Perches
2015-07-10 21:37       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2015-07-11 12:56         ` Joe Perches
2015-07-15 21:15           ` Jean Delvare

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