From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:35:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <200907170135.n6H1ZRW8029119@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> References: <200907162214.n6GMEo5o025706@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <873a8wryfj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247794737 29606 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2009 01:38:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:38:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 17 03:38:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MRcPP-0007rk-NX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:38:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44208 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRcPO-0003VR-R8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:38:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRcPL-0003VM-BP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:38:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRcPH-0003Un-PV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:38:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54967 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRcPH-0003Ue-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:38:39 -0400 Original-Received: from sallyv2.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.120]:33391) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MRcPD-0004RV-Jb; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:38:35 -0400 Original-Received: from godzilla.ics.uci.edu (godzilla.ics.uci.edu [128.195.10.101]) by sallyv2.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n6H1ZSl8007360; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:35:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: (from dann@localhost) by godzilla.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id n6H1ZRW8029119; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:35:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <873a8wryfj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:38:24 +0900") Original-Lines: 14 X-ICS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ICS-MailScanner-ID: n6H1ZSl8007360 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112588 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > Dan Nicolaescu writes: > > Why not turn on whitespace-mode by default in diff-mode? It makes > > spotting whitespace problems very easy, and will make it also easy to > > fix. > > I guess, it's the same as with normal files: some people are very > concerned with whitespace problems, but many do not care; for the > latter, whitespace indication would simply be annoying noise. The question is if the latter outnumber the former. Given the amount of rumbling about trailing whitespace, and the number of scripts/tools etc. that deal with it, then I would say they don't...