From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <200907170639.n6H6dbNh002893@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> References: <200907162214.n6GMEo5o025706@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <873a8wryfj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <200907170135.n6H1ZRW8029119@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87k528ozem.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87ws686nyz.fsf@telefonica.net> <200907170336.n6H3asxS000667@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247813006 30772 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2009 06:43:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:43:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 17 08:43:19 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MRhA5-000068-D6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:43:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34741 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRhA4-0006FA-HS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:43:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRh9u-0006CV-2L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:43:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRh9o-00069W-6S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50155 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRh9n-00069T-UI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:43:00 -0400 Original-Received: from sallyv2.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.120]:47374) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MRh9j-0000RI-Nq; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:42:56 -0400 Original-Received: from godzilla.ics.uci.edu (godzilla.ics.uci.edu [128.195.10.101]) by sallyv2.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n6H6dbaN020394; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: (from dann@localhost) by godzilla.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id n6H6dbNh002893; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:39:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:26:30 +0900") Original-Lines: 25 X-ICS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ICS-MailScanner-ID: n6H6dbaN020394 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112606 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > Dan Nicolaescu 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.