[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu.conf: spaces correction

[Martin Kletzander]

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 09:43:07AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>On 05/11/2016 04:16 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> On 10.05.2016 17:58, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>> On 05/10/2016 11:56 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>>>> On 10.05.2016 17:23, Ján Tomko wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 02:21:53PM +0200, poma wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> libvirt/qemu.conf: spaces correction
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>  src/qemu/qemu.conf | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>>>>>>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> @@ -285,11 +285,11 @@
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  # The default format for Qemu/KVM guest save images is raw; that is, the
>>>>>> -# memory from the domain is dumped out directly to a file.  If you have
>>>>>> +# memory from the domain is dumped out directly to a file. If you have
>>>>>>  # guests with a large amount of memory, however, this can take up quite
>>>>>> -# a bit of space.  If you would like to compress the images while they
>>>>>> +# a bit of space. If you would like to compress the images while they
>>>>>>  # are being saved to disk, you can also set "lzop", "gzip", "bzip2", or "xz"
>>>>>> -# for save_image_format.  Note that this means you slow down the process of
>>>>>> +# for save_image_format. Note that this means you slow down the process of
>>>>>>  # saving a domain in order to save disk space; the list above is in descending
>>>>>>  # order by performance and ascending order by compression ratio.
>>>>>>  #
>>>>>
>>>>> Most of the changes remove double spacing between sentences.
>>>>> This was intentional and I do not think it needs to be corrected.
>>>>
>>>> Can you elaborate more on the reasoning behind this intent?
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing
>>
>> What I grasped from the article is that double spacing is now being
>> slowly deprecated in favour of a single space between both words and
>> sentences.
>>
>
>Double spacing is certainly less common in 'the real world' but it seems like
>there are a disproportionate number of people who use it in open source
>communication. Still a minority though, and I agree with the general idea of
>standardizing on single space in libvirt code
>

Just my two cents (as that possibility was not mentioned); I use double
space after full stop to separate sentences when using monospace (that
is for all stuff that can be in terminal.  Those who see it with another
font usually don't care and for those who do see it in monospace it is
usually more readable.  And that was the case for the usage earlier in
the digital age I believe, although I didn't read the wikipedia article.
Did nobody seriously play any classic adventure games from the 80's from
a certain known (unnamed) publisher?  All the dialogues used double
spacing between sentences.  Should *I* feel old now? =)

Martin

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