[Apologies for not responding earlier; I had to dig this out of my spam
trap.]

On 20 October 2016 at 23:43, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:

> On 20.10.2016 15:32, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>
>> whitespace-report-region currently (Emacs 25.1, and identically in
>> master) fails correctly to detect whitespace at the start and end of the
>> buffer.
>>
>
> Could you please describe the problematic behavior exactly?
>

​The problem is that whitespace-report-region does not apply the tests
whitespace-empty-at-{bob,eob}-regexp specifically to the start and end of
the buffer. Since the tests were (intentionally) not previously anchored to
the start/end of the buffer, this meant they could pass at other,
arbitrary, places in the buffer, and incorrect report that there were blank
lines at the start/end of the buffer when there weren't.

The new tests are specifically anchored, and I made a minor change
elsewhere to avoid appending a now-unnecessary anchor.

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