On Fri, 2023-09-29 at 11:07 +0900, Justin Stitt wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 12:52 AM Nick Desaulniers > <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 11:09 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 2023-09-28 at 14:31 +0900, Justin Stitt wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 2:01 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2023-09-28 at 04:23 +0000, Justin Stitt wrote: > > > > > > Changes in v2: > > > > > > - remove formatting pass (thanks Joe) (but seriously the formatting is > > > > > > bad, is there opportunity to get a formatting pass in here at some > > > > > > point?) > > > > > LG G7 Battery Replacement | Guide | Is it actually a Samsung? I t > > > > > Why? What is it that makes you believe the formatting is bad? > > > > > > > > > > > > > Investigating further, it looked especially bad in my editor. There is > > > > a mixture of > > > > tabs and spaces and my vim tabstop is set to 4 for pl files. Setting this to > > > > 8 is a whole lot better. But I still see some weird spacing > > > > > > > > > > Yes, it's a bit odd indentation. > > > It's emacs default perl format. > > > 4 space indent with 8 space tabs, maximal tab fill. > > > > > > > Oh! What?! That's the most surprising convention I've ever heard of > > (after the GNU C coding style). Yet another thing to hold against > > perl I guess. :P > > > > I have my editor setup to highlight tabs vs spaces via visual cues, so > > that I don't mess up kernel coding style. (`git clang-format HEAD~` > > after a commit helps). scripts/get_maintainer.pl has some serious > > inconsistencies to the point where I'm not sure what it should or was > > meant to be. Now that you mention it, I see it, and it does seem > > consistent in that regard. > > > > Justin, is your formatter configurable to match that convention? > > Maybe it's still useful, as long as you configure it to stick to the > > pre-existing convention. > > Negative, all the perl formatters I've tried will convert everything to spaces. > The best I've seen is perltidy. > > https://gist.github.com/JustinStitt/347385921c80a5212c2672075aa769b6 emacs with cperl mode works fine. I don't know much about vim, but when I open this file in vim it looks perfectly normal and it's apparently properly syntax highlighted.