Re: delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:

> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> text-mode is derived from Fundamental-mode, which has
>>> a somewhat peculiar (IMO) interpretation of "whitespace":
>>
>>> C-@ .. SPC	  	which means: whitespace
>>> DEL .. ÿ	  	which means: whitespace
>>>    		  	which means: whitespace
>>>       .. ​	  	which means: whitespace
>>> <<default>>	  	which means: whitespace
>>
>> This looks wrong.  Why should all the control chars be considered whitespace
>> in text-mode?  Rather than try to use another major mode I think we should
>> fix the above.
>
> That's what I thought, but I don't see a more appropriate choice in the
> Syntax Class Table node of the Emacs Lisp manual, which says this:
>
> | "Whitespace characters" (designated by ` ' or `-') separate symbols
> | and words from each other.

Maybe the solution for delete-trailing-whitespace is to explicitly
only consider "normal" whitespace characters, i.e. don't use the
syntax table ?

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