Handbook whitespace cleanup

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:

SLN> On 2006.02.13 15:25:24 +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
SLN> 
SLN> > I think at least largest chapters (e.g., 300+ lines with whitespace changes) 
SLN> > should be cleaned up.  Any objections (besides well-known issue with screen 
SLN> > and programlisting contents where should be no tabs)?
SLN> 
SLN> My position is the same as I have said before, I think whitespace
SLN> changes for the sake of whitespaces changes is a bad idea, since the
SLN> added pain is greater than the gain.  Also, if whitespace changes are
SLN> to be done in sweep the chapters should be completely fixed including
SLN> indentation, line breaks etc. since the pain will be the same.  Pain
SLN> in this case is all the uncommitted changes which will be nuked and
SLN> cvs annotate which will be more difficult to use.

Yes, I've got your point and after a bit of thinking fully agree. Fortunately 
most of my whitespace cleanup for serialcomms chapter come from one large 
commit, so it's unlikely make [new] pain for other developers.

Thanks.

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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