[cl-who-devel] Unexpected behavior of pre directive with indented output

Jeff Cunningham jeffrey at cunningham.net
Sat Dec 29 19:40:01 UTC 2007


Edi Weitz wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:48:25 -0800, Jeff Cunningham <jeffrey at cunningham.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> I realize that I can turn off indenting in my output, but this seems
>> inelegant. It seems like the pre directive needs to be handled as a
>> special case.
>>     
>
> I don't agree.  To me, the :INDENT argument is there mostly for the
> purpose of debugging.  Also, there are other tags besides PRE which
> would also need special treatment.
>
> Edi.
> _______________________________________________
>   
Such as? It doesn't seem wise to have a debugging mode that changes the 
behavior of what it is you are trying to debug. And its another thing to 
go wrong which seems unnecessary.

--Jeff




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