Re: [PATCH 1/1] signature-format.txt: add space to fix gpgsig continuation line

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

    In the following example, the end of line that ends with a
    whitespace letter is highlighted with a "$" sign; if you are
    trying to recreate these example by hand, do not cut and paste
    them---they are there primarily to highlight extra whitespace at
    the end of some lines.

before a displayed material like this:

  committer C O Mitter [off-list ref] 1465981137 +0000
  gpgsig -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
   Version: GnuPG v1
   $
   iQEcBAABAgAGBQJXYRjRAAoJEGEJLoW3InGJ3IwIAIY4SA6GxY3BjL60YyvsJPh/
   HRCJwH+w7wt3Yc/9/bW2F+gF72kdHOOs2jfv+OZhq0q4OAN6fvVSczISY/82LpS7
   DVdMQj2/YcHDT4xrDNBnXnviDO9G7am/9OE77kEbXrp7QPxvhjkicHNwy2rEflAA

perhaps?

...coupled with the explanation you gave is not too bad. I had thought
to maybe do something like:

   gpgsig -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
   _Version: GnuPG v1
   _
   _iQEcBAABAgAGBQJXYRjRAAoJEGEJLoW3InGJ3IwIAIY4SA6GxY3BjL60YyvsJPh/
   _HRCJwH+w7wt3Yc/9/bW2F+gF72kdHOOs2jfv+OZhq0q4OAN6fvVSczISY/82LpS7
   _DVdMQj2/YcHDT4xrDNBnXnviDO9G7am/9OE77kEbXrp7QPxvhjkicHNwy2rEflAA

but that is pretty ugly. I like yours much better.

Yes, I did consider a replacement for SP and rejected for the same
reason as you did.  We could use the same "we only show the 'here is
a SP' sign when the presence of the SP cannot be seen" convention to
make it less distracting, but I think '$' taken from "cat -e"
probably is easier to see and understand for those who are the
target audience of anything in Documentation/technical/ hierarchy.

Thanks.