Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> In the following example, the end of line that ends with a >> whitespace letter is highlighted with a "$" sign; if you are >> trying to recreate these example by hand, do not cut and paste >> them---they are there primarily to highlight extra whitespace at >> the end of some lines. >> >> before a displayed material like this: >> >> committer C O Mitter <committer@xxxxxxxxxxx> 1465981137 +0000 >> gpgsig -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1 >> $ >> iQEcBAABAgAGBQJXYRjRAAoJEGEJLoW3InGJ3IwIAIY4SA6GxY3BjL60YyvsJPh/ >> HRCJwH+w7wt3Yc/9/bW2F+gF72kdHOOs2jfv+OZhq0q4OAN6fvVSczISY/82LpS7 >> DVdMQj2/YcHDT4xrDNBnXnviDO9G7am/9OE77kEbXrp7QPxvhjkicHNwy2rEflAA >> >> perhaps? > > ...coupled with the explanation you gave is not too bad. I had thought > to maybe do something like: > > gpgsig -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > _Version: GnuPG v1 > _ > _iQEcBAABAgAGBQJXYRjRAAoJEGEJLoW3InGJ3IwIAIY4SA6GxY3BjL60YyvsJPh/ > _HRCJwH+w7wt3Yc/9/bW2F+gF72kdHOOs2jfv+OZhq0q4OAN6fvVSczISY/82LpS7 > _DVdMQj2/YcHDT4xrDNBnXnviDO9G7am/9OE77kEbXrp7QPxvhjkicHNwy2rEflAA > > but that is pretty ugly. I like yours much better. Yes, I did consider a replacement for SP and rejected for the same reason as you did. We could use the same "we only show the 'here is a SP' sign when the presence of the SP cannot be seen" convention to make it less distracting, but I think '$' taken from "cat -e" probably is easier to see and understand for those who are the target audience of anything in Documentation/technical/ hierarchy. Thanks.
