From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Chris Giroir" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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 Message-ID: <54df3b70809101625w1925298er5ea293118feeb20c@mail.gmail.com> References: <85r67rd7ds.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221089142 25337 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2008 23:25:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:25:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 11 01:26:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KdZ53-0008Sh-UO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:26:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57459 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KdZ43-0001Hi-Br for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:25:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KdZ3i-0001G0-EA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:25:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KdZ3g-0001E6-QN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:25:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43076 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KdZ3g-0001Dz-OP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gx0-f12.google.com ([209.85.217.12]:41152) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KdZ3g-0004nH-Gy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: by gxk5 with SMTP id 5so14966017gxk.18 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:25:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=QkKKaMAlH9TUIJ6Yx0XJ8v4SZmb4nJ8nnGWQygkA8nQ=; b=gWVEZtsLlfGDKmfiHPLwP3OQUAG4MQgRmzTVfS5sx234YYwEwMtak5AMH/w2tAB2CZ XUAn0jTYX0BFbRySOE2bycbFGuSaZO11yBO/auCZr73WjESSqc18HZeXki+1gZ6lDCNH tymuzNORkz+g3raSeXPwzrNzJE8UsGdQd4R3s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Vw0tVLwnLi+85xPGoYox9mIVlMLl/QX9W9/AXCyDzQOiOUuR3f10Vyd1nYdwomwCRF 5OCGL4/vshxhT3fQI4NUpuSUns+gtWlLw6uP5WBahF4cJ6Vrlrp0xM0ytAUUPVGdg3gC 8uUp4UYaqQGfbATXJKWHw8+BN9g6+pNe/3NMs= Original-Received: by 10.86.80.5 with SMTP id d5mr1487635fgb.19.1221089109953; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:25:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.86.78.15 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:25:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <85r67rd7ds.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 417673bc4a62bdd0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57402 Archived-At: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:21 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > ChristopherL 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