From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:38:24 +0900 Message-ID: <873a8wryfj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <200907162214.n6GMEo5o025706@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247787590 15492 80.91.229.12 (16 Jul 2009 23:39:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:39:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 17 01:39:43 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 1MRaYA-0001Zg-2w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:39:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45106 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRaY9-0007Zk-Hr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:39:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRaX5-0006qq-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:38:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRaX0-0006jT-Ks for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:38:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50378 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRaX0-0006jI-BY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:38:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:15777) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MRaWx-0008DE-VX; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:38:28 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp12.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.74]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MRaWx-0007zs-4v; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:38:27 -0400 Original-Received: from 218.231.109.150.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.231.109.150] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp12.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1MRaWv-0001zc-0n; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:38:25 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9E11CDF72; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:38:24 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <200907162214.n6GMEo5o025706@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:14:50 -0700 (PDT)") Original-Lines: 21 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-Detected-Operating-System: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:112581 Archived-At: 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. It's good if it's _easy_ to turn on, but it seems far less obvious that it should be turned on by default. [I know many in the git community seem quite obsessed with catching whitespace problems in patches etc, but I've found git's various whitespace-detecting frobs etc simply annoying (I don't know if it's still turned on by default, but I had to actively disable it).] -Miles -- Fast, small, soon; pick any 2.