From: "Chris Giroir" <kelsin@valefor.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of Lines
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:25:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54df3b70809101625w1925298er5ea293118feeb20c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85r67rd7ds.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:21 PM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> ChristopherL <clusardi2k@aol.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> When I overwrite a character in a file containing blank characters
>> at the end my lines, Emacs takes them away on save! What can I do to
>> prevent the loss of the blank characters?
>
> Disable whatever stuff you put into your .emacs file in order to get
> this behavior.
>
When I started my recent job this hit me when my cvs diffs were huge.
For me it was a ruby-on-rails help package that did it. Took me
forever to find it, but it's gone now!
> It is a good rule never to put anything into .emacs that you have not
> understood, regardless what figure of authority suggested that it would
> be a good idea to have.
Definitely good advice!
Chris G
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-10 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-10 15:48 On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of Lines ChristopherL
2008-09-10 21:21 ` David Kastrup
2008-09-10 23:25 ` Chris Giroir [this message]
2008-09-11 11:00 ` Bernardo Bacic
[not found] ` <mailman.19001.1221131089.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-11 15:09 ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 15:33 ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 15:37 ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 15:42 ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 16:10 ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 18:06 ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 18:18 ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 18:28 ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 18:41 ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 18:54 ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 19:19 ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 19:28 ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 19:31 ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-28 2:06 ` David Combs
2008-09-29 8:47 ` Ada (was:On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of Lines) Anders Wirzenius
2008-09-11 15:33 ` Can't find .emacs file on Windows (was: Re: On " Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 18:48 ` On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of Lines Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.19046.1221158942.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-11 19:16 ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 19:32 ` Joost Diepenmaat
2008-09-11 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
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