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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 14:09:07 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 5312 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5312: Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’ considered unsafe?
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:13:14 +0100

Hi,

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Of course, maybe you can come up with file formats where trailing
> whitespaces are seriously problematic as well.  I just can't think of
> any off the top of my head.

Trailing whitespaces can lead to pointless conflicts when applying
patches.  See, e.g.,
http://www.mail-archive.com/libvir-list <at> redhat.com/msg04896.html .

In this thread, the project’s policy is to get rid of them, and
‘show-trailing-whitespace’ in ‘.dir-locals.el’ or similar would
definitely help.

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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