[913] in athena10
Re: emacs cosmetic changes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Thu Jan 22 18:29:29 2009
Message-Id: <200901222328.n0MNSxTC016750@pothole.mit.edu>
To: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>, debathena@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:01:50 EST."
<20090121050149.GK3199@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:28:59 -0500
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
I've been on the fence about this, since I originally committed this with
a philosophy of "make it as much as possible like Athena < 10". For
require-final-newline, though, its lack is clearly identified as a
potential screw case for current users and the arguments for punting it
seem dubious. Unlike other changes, though, it's not changing
user-visible behavior to be Athena-like instead of Ubuntu-like, it's more
that it's quietly removing a way for Athena users to hurt themselves.
