Subject: bug#5312 closed by Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> (Re: bug#5312: Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’ considered unsafe?)

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Subject: Re: bug#5312: Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’ considered unsafe?
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:15:33 -0500
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  * frame.el (show-trailing-whitespace): Safe if boolean.

Subject: Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’considered unsafe?
From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:11:29 +0100
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Hello, and best wishes,

Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’ considered unsafe?

I find it inconvenient since adding it to a per-file or per-directory
local variable list will (by default) ask users whether they want to
apply the dreaded setting.

Thanks,
Ludo’.