From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup 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 23:21:35 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85r67rd7ds.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221082850 3142 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2008 21:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:40:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 10 23:41:45 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 1KdXRY-0003vb-Ax for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:41:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41932 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KdXQY-0000eV-7L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:40:42 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!noris.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:839iJ3pboRkyKfWKa4gsSPXR5WE= Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Sep 2008 23:21:35 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 05ea6643.newsspool1.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=VQ\; LPgX:Qlm7>ihJR; B_cic==]BZ:afn4Fo<]lROoRa4nDHegD_]Re[YimBmcWA0iCV`H8_`hhQd^9QSCVg3dOfOIC5DBZVJ9kV8P@5_[iLTnH_P1]W[1OVn Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162059 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:57401 Archived-At: 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. 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. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum