From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenneth Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Box cursor at EoL Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:06:06 -0400 Message-ID: <0f8c0caa-2f51-2db9-3fac-8198bee5e0bc@us.ibm.com> References: <25405.40924.299467.425535@tux.local> <83pmf6rz4g.fsf@gnu.org> <87sfk1zvgr.fsf@dataswamp.org> <0988b28d-329c-c9cf-df05-2775e267dd33@us.ibm.com> <871qr73xhl.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1424"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.3.2 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 18 19:16:09 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1okqCH-00009v-PC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:16:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50012 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1okqCG-0004R8-6o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:16:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50238) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1okq2j-0004Pc-P6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:06:17 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:55916) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1okq2h-0007IR-TF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:06:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1okq2d-0007lw-R6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:06:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <871qr73xhl.fsf@dataswamp.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:140130 Archived-At: On 10/17/2022 12:06 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Kenneth Goldman wrote: > >>>> If this is only because you want to see the trailing >>>> blanks, then customize show-trailing-whitespace to >>>> a non-nil value, and these trailing blanks will be shown >>>> in distinct color. >>> >>> It's better to never see them, but always remove them ... >> >> In many open source communities, a change that affects white >> space would be discouraged or rejected. > > Yes, but that's from the perspective of their systems that > would denote such changes as ... changes, right? So if they > are annoyed by that, they should change their own systems that > report that ... To git (and most version control systems), a change is a change. The patch history should not be cluttered with changes that don't change anything. > > And even so, if we set Emacs to behave as I suggest (always > remove them), wouldn't that mean _less_ such changes are > reported (occur) in the long run? No, because not every developer on a project uses emacs. Their loss! > > Bottom line, it makes sense to remove them since they don't do > anyone anything good. But what sense does it make to introduce > them to source files? >