From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gratuitous changes Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 13:56:10 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030202135013.B71D.LEKTU@terra.es> References: <200301312148.h0VLmG128712@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044190626 4464 80.91.224.249 (2 Feb 2003 12:57:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 12:57:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18fJgG-00019q-00 for ; Sun, 02 Feb 2003 13:57:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18fJnN-0002Rh-00 for ; Sun, 02 Feb 2003 14:04:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18fJhb-0002uY-09 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2003 07:58:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18fJft-000135-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2003 07:56:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18fJfq-0000uE-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2003 07:56:39 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.terra.es ([213.4.129.129] helo=tsmtp3.ldap.isp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18fJfP-0000FC-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2003 07:56:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.36.30.211] ([80.36.30.211]) by tsmtp3.ldap.isp (terra.es) with ESMTP id H9OMLK00.SEW; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 13:56:08 +0100 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.05.06 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11289 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11289 On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 07:56:18 +0200 (IST) Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I generally dislike unnecessary whitespace changes as well: for one > thing, they make diffs much harder to grasp. Only because there are a lot of files with trailing whitespace inserted casually and carelessly. If we implemented a policy of stripping it when we find it, in a short time there would me no more conflicts about the issue. > So, as extreme as this particular case is, at least in > principle, Emacs development does not seem to discourage such gratuitous > changes. At least it didn't until now. That's for sure. As I've said, I've had the hook for taking out the whitespace for a year and I've been commiting "trimmed" files since back then. And I'm pretty sure there are other developers who rutinely do the same. Not a single complain till now, IIRC. -- Juanma Barranquero