From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: diff-mode misinterprets empty lines. Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:03:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <85ir3l767y.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196388239 25906 80.91.229.12 (30 Nov 2007 02:03:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 30 03:04:06 2007 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 1IxvEZ-00082d-Ng for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:04:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IxvEJ-000201-Th for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:03:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IxvEG-0001xy-6w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:03:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IxvEE-0001wi-F0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:03:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IxvEE-0001wS-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:03:42 -0500 Original-Received: from tomts20.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.74] helo=tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IxvE6-0002iz-2i; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:03:34 -0500 Original-Received: from toip3.srvr.bell.ca ([209.226.175.86]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20071130020333.EQWV8273.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@toip3.srvr.bell.ca>; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:03:33 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah4FAKr9TkdGN4zh/2dsb2JhbACBWw Original-Received: from bas1-montreal42-1178045665.dsl.bell.ca (HELO pastel.home) ([70.55.140.225]) by toip3.srvr.bell.ca with ESMTP; 29 Nov 2007 21:01:10 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 847817F62; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:03:32 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:31:43 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:84328 Archived-At: > When people don't want trailing whitespace warnings to trigger in their > editor, they should obviously amend diff-mode for that. But changing > the diff format instead is insane. And that patch happens to have > tolerance code intended to deal with utterly broken mailers is no excuse > for that. > Are you suggesting I should ask the diff maintainers to revert that > change? That might be a good idea. Yes, please. Stefan