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[Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org>]

Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
> After my rather idealistic outburst earlier, I... well, frankly decided
> I don't much care. Bash script is like the neglected love-child of BASIC
> Pearl and TCL. It's going to be at least a little uncomfortable to read
> no matter how much you try & pretty it up.
>
> The one issue I do care about is the lined up && and \. I sort-of like
> them lined up, but as Vlad has pointed out keeping them lined up is not
> only a nuisance, it's spammy. Keeping them lined up means lots of
> otherwise unchanged lines are logged as changed, which is already
> annoying people. Having them lined up on the far right is no great
> solution, as that dissociates continuation from command. This matters
> most for spell files containing conditionals, where you cannot simply
> add && to every line.
>
> I vote to allow cleanups that un-align the &&s. We either have to put up
> with cleanup spam now, or put up with alignment spam for the rest of the
> grimoires' lifetimes.

I've been one of the defenders of lining up continuation chars. However, 
the things you've pointed out certainly make the opposite of that seem 
more logical. I'll go with your suggestion if we can have a vote and 
write it down, as long as cleanup commits are to be appropriately 
separated from the rest.

Juuso