From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: emacs sources awash in trailing blanks Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 03:21:22 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87r7nupl8t.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098215415 15393 80.91.229.6 (19 Oct 2004 19:50:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:50:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 19 21:50:02 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CJzzd-0006qz-00 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:50:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CK06z-0006uw-Qm for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CK06u-0006tL-AF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:57:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CK06t-0006sv-Gk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:57:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CK06t-0006ss-E6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:57:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [204.74.68.40] (helo=frodo.hserus.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CJzz2-0001TQ-8l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:49:24 -0400 Original-Received: from tc218-187-79-199.2-4.dynamic.apol.com.tw ([218.187.79.199]:33034 helo=jidanni1) by frodo.hserus.net with esmtpsa (Cipher TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.43 #0) id 1CJzyn-000N9d-UB by authid with plain for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:19:18 +0530 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:9371 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:9371 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. cd /usr/share/emacs/21.3/lisp/ LC_ALL=C grep -c ' $' *.el /dev/null abbrev.el:4 abbrevlist.el:1... Customs, in a quick spot check of that emacs source directory, found LC_ALL=C grep -c ' $' *.el |grep -v :0|wc -l 140 trailing blanks infected files. "Stallman would spin in his grave if he went thru life with show-trailing-whitespace enabled to see what was going on, and of course if he were dead." (The LC_ALL=C is needed to avoid the grep 3rd world locales slowdown bug.) (show-trailing-whitespace is great for quibblers like me. "If you can't attack their content, well, there's surely a trailing blank or two...")