Re: [PATCH] Kernel support for VESA Bios Extension

[Marco Gerards]

"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Friday 15 July 2005 18:47, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
>> > After the comment add a `.' and two spaces instead of one.  This is
>> > true for all comments.
>>
>> Odd... Especially that two spaces. But I don't want to start another
>> "war" with this ;)... So I try to adapt.
>
> According to the GNU Coding Standards, two spaces are useful for Emacs to 
> identify the end of a text. I myself do not see any problem without two 
> spaces in Emacs, so I agree that it looks strange. But... this is what the 
> GNU Coding Standards says, and I have no problem with this rule, so we follow 
> it.

I do remember having some problems in emacs if this is not used.  But
I don't remember what the exact problems are.  To avoid further
problems and because of the GCS I really prefer two spaces in both
comments and changelog entries.

--
Marco