Re: [PATCH] add a trivial patch style checker

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On Tue, 29 May 2007 22:22:43 +0200 (MEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> 
> On May 29 2007 10:05, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> >
> >>> +		if($line=~/^\s*[A-Za-z\d_]+:/ and !($line=~/^\s*default:/)){
> >>> +			print "Gotos should not be indented\n";
> >>> +			print "$herecurr";
> >>> +			$clean = 0;
> >>> +		}
> >> 
> >> emacs generates one space label in front of a goto label. I wouldn't
> >> outlaw this.
> >
> >Yep, we also now allow one space something to do with diff -p not
> >getting confused...
> 
> Not only diff and emacs. At least joe (joe.sf.net) is another editor
> whose %y tag or so also takes lines with
> 
> 	no space at the front and properly paired parens,braces,etc.
> 
> as key lines for %y. Since usually, functions are the only thing at
> the beginning of a line, this works well. That's why labels should
> be allowed to be indented by one.

That's just a joe bug then.

diff no longer requires a beginning space, at least in the testing
that I did it worked with no leading space on a label:.


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