Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] KABI example conversion and cleanup

From: Kyle Moffett
Date: Sun Mar 26 2006 - 09:27:40 EST


On Mar 26, 2006, at 08:53:05, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:47:51 -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
The other thing that I quickly noticed while writing up the patches is that it's kind of tedious typing __kabi_ over and over again. I actually did first try with __linux_abi_ but the typing effort and finger cramps made me give up on that really quickly.

What kind of barebone editor are you using that doesn't offer a way (through macro or automatic completion or abbreviations or substitution or plain copy and paste or whatever else) to shorten that typing effort?

Well, actually I was using vim, and although I know how to configure shortcuts like that; do we really want to force people to use shortcuts and abbreviations to be able to sanely edit the ABI code? Isn't that counterproductive with the desire to get the maintainers fixing up their own ABIs? Plus all the extra verbiage tends to make the lines too long (80-column limit) and makes it harder to read.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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