On Mon, 8 Jan 2018, David Gibson wrote: > 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. OK, my emacs doesn't show column numbers. I make a macro that moves forward one space, and run that macro, eg 28 times, which ends up in the wrong place. But if you prefer tabs to count as 8, I can leave it as it is. julia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree-compiler" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
