> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 02:05:25 +0000 > From: Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd-source-change...@mumble.net> > > > Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 00:23:33 -0000 (UTC) > > From: chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) > > > > Yes, this is indeed a lot better. I prefer though: > > > > MAN+= \ > > bar.7 \ > > foo.7 > > > > It is faster to parse, involves less typing, whitespace is cleaner. > > This one doesn't have the same pattern for every line, so it makes > merging and sorting harder -- do M-x sort-lines on the content lines, > and you'll come up with: > > MAN+= \ > foo.7 > bar.7 \
err, obviously I meant this example the other way; if it had been written as: MAN+= \ foo.7 \ bar.7 as the natural order of metasyntactic variables (foo, bar), then doing M-x sort-lines on the content lines would yield: MAN+= \ bar.7 foo.7 \
