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[src/trunk]: src/usr.bin/indent indent: don't claim that indent is "the nices...



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/71ff894f58a9
branches:  trunk
changeset: 960697:71ff894f58a9
user:      rillig <rillig%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Fri Mar 26 22:33:54 2021 +0000

description:
indent: don't claim that indent is "the nicest C pretty printer around"

That statement may have been true in 1993, but definitely is not true
anymore, as of 2021.

The part about "needs to be completely redone" is still true though
since indent cannot even format its own source code in an acceptable
way.

diffstat:

 usr.bin/indent/README |  3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diffs (17 lines):

diff -r e0e147bd0df3 -r 71ff894f58a9 usr.bin/indent/README
--- a/usr.bin/indent/README     Fri Mar 26 22:27:43 2021 +0000
+++ b/usr.bin/indent/README     Fri Mar 26 22:33:54 2021 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 via some distribution tape for PDP-11 Unix.  It has subsequently been
 hacked upon by James Gosling @ CMU.  It isn't very pretty, and really needs
 to be completely redone, but it is probably the nicest C pretty printer
-around.
+around (as of 1993 or even earlier).
 
 Further additions to provide "Kernel Normal Form" were contributed
 by the folks at Sun Microsystems.
@@ -94,4 +94,3 @@
 cc: ccvaxa!willcox
     sun.com!jar
     uunet!rsalz
-



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