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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 13.01.20 um 20:26 schrieb Ralph
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<div dir="auto">On Mon, Jan 13, 2020, 11:17 Ulf Zibis, <<a
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<p>Am 13.01.20 um 19:58 schrieb Ralph Little:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 13,
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Here came some surprise. With diff, I could see,
that many lines were<br>
changed, even there was no semantic change. This
was caused by poedit<br>
from automatic line break. It breaks lines after
83 chars, regardless if<br>
I e.g. set it to 70 (with "keep format of
existing files"), the default<br>
was 79.<br>
So I like to suggest, to first "reformat" the
de.po file for a stable<br>
format, make a merge request and after do the
semantic changes, so<br>
reviewers would have less work.<br>
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<div>I tend to agree!<br>
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<div>I prefer to formatting changes separated from
functional updates.</div>
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Great!<br>
I personally would prefer NO line breaks, as comparing
the diffs after <br>
would be much easier (otherwise a little change at the
beginning of a <br>
long text changes all line breaks for several following
lines, which<br>
makes it error-prone to observe changes at the end of
the long text)
<p>If you disagree and want automatic line breaks, which
width do you want?</p>
<p>-Ulf<br>
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<div dir="auto">I personally don't have a view.</div>
<div dir="auto">However I see that the default setting in poedit
is 79 and that seems reasonable to me. In the version I have
has a setting of "Preserve formatting of existing files" so I
don't know why it would be making other changes. :(</div>
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Maybe this setting scans for the longest line in the input file an
takes its width instead the determined 79.<br>
<p>Is there any opposition from someone against disabling the
automatic line break, as today's screens are huge and modern edit
and visual diff tools are anyway capable to visually wrap lines
according the window width. This would dramatically serve visual
diff tools to highlight tiny differences in long logical strings.</p>
<p>-Ulf<br>
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