> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 02:05:25 +0000
> From: Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd-source-changes-d%mumble.net@localhost>
>
> > Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 00:23:33 -0000 (UTC)
> > From: christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
> >
> > Yes, this is indeed a lot better. I prefer though:
> >
> > MAN+= \
> > bar.7 \
> > foo.7
> >
> > It is faster to parse, involves less typing, whitespace is cleaner.
>
> This one doesn't have the same pattern for every line, so it makes
> merging and sorting harder -- do M-x sort-lines on the content lines,
> and you'll come up with:
>
> MAN+= \
> foo.7
> bar.7 \
err, obviously I meant this example the other way; if it had been
written as:
MAN+= \
foo.7 \
bar.7
as the natural order of metasyntactic variables (foo, bar), then doing
M-x sort-lines on the content lines would yield:
MAN+= \
bar.7
foo.7 \
I find it better to have
MAN+= bar.7
MAN+= foo.7
Since a grep for 'MAN.*foo' will produce meaningful results
Sorting, and initial entry are once-only operations, searching happens everywhere all the time.