* Re: emacs sources awash in trailing blanks
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@ 2004-10-19 19:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-22 2:20 ` whitespace a misnomer Dan Jacobson
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2004-10-19 19:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
> Gentlemen, emacs sources are the home of many stowaway trailing
> blanks, hiding at the ends of lines, just waiting for their
> opportunity to reproduce more of themselves thru a cut and paste by an
> oblivious non show-trailing-whitespace using developer.
We're an equal opportunity project; we do not discriminate against
trailing whitespace.
Stefan
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* whitespace a misnomer
2004-10-19 19:59 ` emacs sources awash in trailing blanks Stefan Monnier
@ 2004-10-22 2:20 ` Dan Jacobson
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From: Dan Jacobson @ 2004-10-22 2:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs
S> We're an equal opportunity project; we do not discriminate against
S> trailing whitespace.
Come to think of it, whitespace is a misnomer, a relic of offices with
white paper. As I type, "whitespace" is indeed black on one screen,
red on another, grey on another, etc.
$ man perlre|grep -c white
12
Worse is whitelisting/blacklisting etc. Or maybe let's just accept
it. [OK perldudes, close this bug that I hereby opened.]
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