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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: James Cloos <cloos <at> jhcloos.com>
To: 5312 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#5312: Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’ considered unsafe?
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:33:00 -0500

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

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

One seen recently -- on the groff list, IIRC -- involved continuation
lines.  <\><NL> works, <\><SP><NL> does not.

-JimC
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James Cloos <cloos <at> jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
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