Re: emacs and/or git texinfo-all-menus-update brokenness

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:35 PM


> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 02:30:59PM -0000, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > Graham, maybe you could look into this, as I've
> > noticed trailing spaces on menu items several
> > times before.  I seem to remember your saying
> > you have a macro or some code which generates
> > the menus when you edit the doc files. If so,
> > could you please double check it doesn't add
> > trailing spaces.  Ta.
>
> Pure chance I saw this; I have about 30 unread lilypond devel
> emails.
>
> Bad news is that the emacs texinfo-all-update-menus macro *always*
> adds the trailing spaces.  Jan told me not to worry about it
> approximately five years ago, so I've never worried about it.

The trailing spaces are not a problem normally, but
on this occasion they have been.  Jonathan sent me
a patch which would not apply until I removed a
trailing space from the target file.  After pushing
both changes, Jonathan then had a conflict with
that file on his next pull - a problem for someone
not yet overly familiar with git.  We shall have to
educate all contributors to a reasonable level in git
or avoid adding these trailing spaces somehow.

> More technical people, both on the git side, and on the emacs side
> (the only reason I ever touch emacs is to run this macro), could
> comment further.

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Trevor