Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
  > > Why not turn on whitespace-mode by default in diff-mode?  It makes
  > > spotting whitespace problems very easy, and will make it also easy to
  > > fix.
  > 
  > I guess, it's the same as with normal files:  some people are very
  > concerned with whitespace problems, but many do not care; for the
  > latter, whitespace indication would simply be annoying noise.

The question is if the latter outnumber the former.   Given the amount
of rumbling about trailing whitespace, and the number of scripts/tools
etc. that deal with it, then I would say they don't...