Re: [man-pages PATCH v3] statx.2, open.2: document STATX_DIOALIGN

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Tue Oct 11 2022 - 19:02:46 EST


Hi Alejandro,

On Sat, Oct 08, 2022 at 03:56:22AM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > +If none of the above is available, then direct I/O support and alignment
>
> Please use semantic newlines.
>
> See man-pages(7):
> Use semantic newlines
> In the source of a manual page, new sentences should be
> started on new lines, long sentences should be split into
> lines at clause breaks (commas, semicolons, colons, and
> so on), and long clauses should be split at phrase bound‐
> aries. This convention, sometimes known as "semantic
> newlines", makes it easier to see the effect of patches,
> which often operate at the level of individual sentences,
> clauses, or phrases.

I tried to do this in v4. It seems very arbitrary, though, so if you want
further changes to the newlines I recommend just making them when committing the
patch.

Note that a better way to review changes to text is to do a word diff instead of
a line diff.

- Eric