On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 01:08:11 -0300 "Daniel W. S. Almeida" <dwlsalmeida@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Would you please rephrase this? My first language isn't English and I am > not sure I understood that. > > > It's best in general to avoid refilling paragraphs so as to make it clear > > what is being changed. But we would also like to avoid creating such long > > lines. Perhaps an add-on patch refilling things would satisfy both > > criteria here. Changing text in an existing paragraph can result in line lengths that are inconsistent and ragged, leading to a less pleasant appearance and the temptation to "refill" the paragraph so that the lines are all approximately equal in length. The problem with yielding to that temptation is that it messes up the diff output so that you can no longer easily see the actual text changes that were made. Thus, when making such changes, it can be better to not refill the paragraphs - as, indeed, you did not. But if the result becomes too difficult to read (as in, it creates lines that are waaaay to long), it can be good to create a second patch that makes only the cosmetic changes without any associated text changes. I was suggesting doing that in this case. Does that help? Thanks, jon
