On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 05:43:20PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > Hello, > > I have been working with Frank Rowand on a v7 of file and line number > annotations in the -O dts output of the device tree compiler. > > I wanted to make an --annotate-full option that would print the full > filename, and starting and ending line and column numbers. > > The following commit: > > commit 728c5e87c655c17c2fbc1d5386b12ff328e0fc76 > Author: David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue Dec 8 14:24:42 2009 +1100 > > extends the position mechanism with columns, but considers a tab to be 8 > column. Would it be ok to drop this feature? I have the impression that > counting 1 column for a tab would be more useful for actually finding the > referenced code. Hrm. I set it up that way initially so that the reported columns would match what shows up inside an editor (e.g. emacs 'column-number-mode'). So, I think I'll need to see a more developed case for why not expanding tabs this way is preferable before making the change. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson
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