linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Lindent: Handle missing indent gracefully

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Message-Id: <20150710143732.108f19c660402c8dedc18263@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:37:32 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Lindent: Handle missing indent gracefully

On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 10:04:07 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:

> > Le Friday 10 July 2015 __ 04:51 -0700, Joe Perches a __crit :
> > > On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 13:47 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > > If indent is not found, bail out immediately instead of spitting
> > > > random shell script error messages.
> > > 
> > > OK, but can't we just delete Lindent instead?
> > 
> > Because...?
> 
> It's just not very useful in today's development space.

I've very occasionally used Lindent.  It's useful if the input is an
utter mess.  You feed it through Lindent as a first pass then get in and
do the remainder by hand.

It can be less work than doing the whole conversion by hand.

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