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https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/24/407

Date	Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:42:06 -0700
From	Jonathan Corbet <>
Subject	Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix formatting to make 's' happy

On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:54:17 +0200 (EET)
Tero Roponen  wrote:

> From: Maisa Roponen 
> 
> "That letter [the last s] is sad because all the others
> have those things [=] below them and it does not."
> 
> This patch fixes the tragedy so all the letters can
> be happy again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maisa Roponen 
> [The author being 4 years old needed some assistance]
> Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen 
>

> When I was reading the documentation, my 4-year-old
> niece wanted to see what I was doing. After telling her,
> she noticed that something was very wrong and asked
> me to fix it. Instead, I helped her fix it herself.

Please inform your niece that the patch has been applied and that the
lonely "s" need pine away no longer.

Thanks,

jon
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  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago

    That is so wonderfully wholesome; I needed that today.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago

    I saw the title and was about to start calling bullshit but then I actually read it and it's honestly the most adorable and wholesome thing. Her patch is greatly needed, and is critically important. I can't believe that such a major bug was missed by the dev team.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    For one second I thought this was, like, Euler's second coming with a child just looking at code and being like:"Huh, so thats programming? Btw. you made an whoopsie there! frantically pointing"

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I wonder what editor she used. Hope it was vim!

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  • [–] 47 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    if this 4 year old is proficient with emacs i’m going to kill myself

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Man this warms my heart ;‿;

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