Bug #4600 for Text-Autoformat: error formatting several mv commands

Date:	Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:55:53 +1100
From:	Damian Conway <damian [...] conway.org>
To:	bug-Text-Autoformat [...] rt.cpan.org
Subject:	Re: [cpan #4600] error formatting several mv commands
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> This message about Text-Autoformat was sent to you by guest <> via rt.cpan.org > > Full context and any attached attachments can be found at: > <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4600 > > > Hi, > Formatting something like > > mv /etc/rc3.d/S50networking /etc/rc3.d/S100networking > mv /etc/rc5.d/S50networking /etc/rc5.d/S100networking > mv /etc/rc3.d/S100networking /etc/rc3.d/S50networking > mv /etc/rc5.d/S100networking /etc/rc5.d/S50networking > > doesn't work right, it becomes > > mv /etc/rc3.d/S50networking /etc/rc3.d/S100networking > mvi /etc/rc5.d/S50networking /etc/rc5.d/S100networking > mvii /etc/rc3.d/S100networking /etc/rc3.d/S50networking > mviii /etc/rc5.d/S100networking /etc/rc5.d/S50networking

I blame Kernighan, Richie, et al. for numbering their command-line utilities with Roman numerals! ;-) Unfortunately I don't see any way of fixing this short of making autoformat as intelligent as the average Unix programmer. Of course, you could always use the "ignore" flag that was introduced in version 1.07 to ignore such lines. Damian