Re: Box cursor at EoL

[Kenneth Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>]

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?
>