Standardize previous ChangeLog entries?

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
> >
> >> OK to add the correct double-space between NAME and <EMAIL> in the
> >> ChangeLog lines "DATE  NAME  <EMAIL>"?
> >>
> >> There are 24 single-spaced lines compared with 283 double-spaced lines.
> >> Max.
> >
> > FWIW, I count 125 single-spaced lines vs. 294 double-spaced lines...  I
> > used the following patterns in vim:
> >
> > /^[^ \t].*[^ ] </ for single-spaced, and
> > /^[^ \t].*[^ ]  </ for double-spaced.
> >
> > This also brings up an interesting question of what the proper date format
> > is.  Most (320) dates are in the YYYY-MM-DD format, but some (99) are in
> > the "Dow Mon DD HH:MM:SS YYYY" format, and some of those have 2 spaces
> > before YYYY.  Weird.
>
> Hmm. I hadn't noticed the old date format, so my regexps didn't match any of
> those lines.
> However, your regexps match some lines incorrectly - for example:
>         * archive_tar_file.cc: Include <algorithm>.
>         * inilex.l: Recognise Build-Depends-Indep, [,], >, < and remove
>         (filedef): Create == and < operators for STL use.
> Max.

They don't for me, but this could be because I have vim set to
'nocompatible' or something.  The "\t" matches a Tab.  If you substitute
that by a literal Tab character, these should work even in 'compatible'
mode.
	Igor
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