From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:35:27 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907170135.n6H1ZRW8029119@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873a8wryfj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:38:24 +0900")
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...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-17 1:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-16 22:14 show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-16 22:33 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-16 22:53 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-16 23:06 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-16 23:19 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-16 23:38 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-17 1:35 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2009-07-17 1:45 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-17 2:29 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-07-17 3:24 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-17 3:36 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-17 4:15 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-07-17 4:26 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-17 6:39 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-17 7:49 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-17 0:03 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-07-17 1:37 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-17 3:14 ` Stefan Monnier
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