From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:39:37 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907170639.n6H6dbNh002893@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoocrkkk95.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:26:30 +0900")
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
> Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
> > > I can see an argument for turning on highlighting of "introduced
> > > trailing whitespace" (not in the context lines) by default for vc-diff
> > > of the working tree, but more general ("pedantic") highlighting
> > > shouldn't be on by default.
> >
> > The feature we are talking about here is exclusively about highlighting
> > the "introduced trailing whitespace"...
>
> Only in vc-diff against the working tree?
Always, we don't have anything to distinguish between vc-diff and diff
files.
> I don't like trailing whitespace either, and would be happy if there was
> an unobtrusive and convenient way to reduce it -- but I also look at
> lots of diffs where such indications would simply be noise.
>
> [It seems worth noting that diff-mode generally goes to a fair bit of
> trouble to be restrained in its presentation...]
Which is great if you are a radiologist, so you can distinguish
thousands of nuances of gray.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-17 6:39 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
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 [this message]
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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