[127599] trunk/dports/editors

Mark Evenson evenson at panix.com
Fri Oct 31 02:24:06 PDT 2014


> On 31 Oct 2014, at 03:07, Lawrence Velázquez <larryv at macports.org> wrote:

[…]

>> +notes "To use ${name}, add the following to your ~/.emacs:\n\
>> +\n\
>> +    (require 'mediawiki)\n\
>> +\n\
>> +Once the mediawiki mode is loaded, one can customize the variable\n\
>> +mediawiki-site-alist to set up information by issuing:\n\
>> +\n\
>> +   M-x customize-variable RET mediawiki-site-alist RET"
> 
> All these '\n's are unnecessary and are really ugly to boot. Double quotes preserve newlines; just start new lines where you want new lines to start. And the line-ending backslashes are only necessary for explicit line continuation. See the zsh Portfile, for example.

Indeed it does look much better.

Thanks for the tips!



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