Re: Lindent fixed to match reality

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Erik Hensema <erik@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> >> void *foo(void) {
> >> 
> >>  instead of
> >> 
> >> void *
> >> foo(void) {
> >
> > You just nicely broke 'find . -name *.c | xargs grep ^foo'.
> 
> It was never working with the kernel, so no one can break it.
> Just use a little better pattern or use a tool which parses C code.

Indeed.

Never _ever_ make your source-code look worse because your tools suck. Fix 
the tools instead.

There are tons of tools that index sources properly, so please don't try
to make code look like crap because of using broken things like '^foo'.

		Linus
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