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<body><div style="font-family:Arial;">Formatting such as displayed there (which is, btw, also not a patch)?<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-October/109662.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-October/109662.html</a><br></div>

<div>Have a look at the author, please.<br></div>

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<div style="font-family:Arial;">More precedence:<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-October/110086.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-October/110086.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-December/110857.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-December/110857.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-December/110841.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-December/110841.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-December/110790.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-December/110790.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-December/110769.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-December/110769.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110721.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110721.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110708.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110708.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110704.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110704.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110632.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110632.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110488.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110488.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110585.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110585.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110521.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110521.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110509.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110509.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110507.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110507.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110504.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110504.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110243.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110243.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110238.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110238.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110236.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110236.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110144.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110144.html</a><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110450.html">https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-November/110450.html</a><br></div>

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<div style="font-family:Arial;">I didn’t say git was too hard for me to use (do you want to imply again that I’m stupid?),<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">I said it was too cumbersome and I remain at that position. If you want to require me to use git<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">and do the whole roundtripping dance just to point out a few typos and English corrections, I plainly<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">won’t do that – which I feel like might be your true intent anyways.<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">Also, please leave the strawmans on the fields, no need to beat them up.<br></div>

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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Then, I don’t get why you tell me to ask about formatting on the IRC channel when we talked about<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">precisely this topic a few days ago and you were unwilling to give me more information back then –<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">did you change your mind? If so, why do you still tell me to go looking through other mail?<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">After the topic had been raised, I’ve explicitly looked for formatting differences when I went through new <br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">messages on this list. I’ve noticed only two obvious differences: First, that many of you seem to end your<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">lines either at around 80 or at around 72 characters (as defined in some old advice) and second, that you<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">seem to introduce many small paragraphs for no apparent reason.<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">On this list, there doesn’t seem to be any hard limit on line length (there are also a couple of guys who use<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">different lengths). It’s not really necessary either in this day and age, so I assumed it was just an old habit.<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">If you wanted me to adhere to a limit of 72 characters (80 doesn’t really make sense IIUC), you could have<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">told me straight into my virtual face, right around the first time when I asked about formatting on the ML;<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">I believe I even mentioned line-length explicitly (no, I won’t bother looking it up, I’ve already wasted enough<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">time on this mail …).<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">If, for some reason, it would help you with reading if I inserted an empty line every two sentences<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">(this honestly seems to be the average case), I’d be willing to do that, although I dislike this style myself.<br></div>

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<div style="font-family:Arial;">With all this said, I do take Thomas’ feedback seriously. I do not see any place where I’ve been overly verbose – the information which I thought should be there is there, no part is really superfluous – except maybe the very<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">first sentence (the one about my original intent when writing this message), I could have omitted that one.<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">I do not want to leave out the reasoning for changes (which was also relatively short), especially when they<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">are about language, a very personal matter that is highly dependent on style and preference.<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">I will read my previous mail again tomorrow, to get a more unbiased look on it, but I don’t expect to gain much<br></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial;">from doing this, it didn’t help with my other mails in the past.<br></div>

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