From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: removing white space highlight Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 04:31:01 +0100 Message-ID: <8760xiloy2.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87egc6ltog.fsf@debian.uxu> <87vb5izqst.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456025731 11823 80.91.229.3 (21 Feb 2016 03:35:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 03:35:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 21 04:35:22 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aXKnn-0003W3-Cc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 04:35:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37605 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXKnm-0000yr-Dw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:35:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59459) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXKnb-0000xW-Os for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:35:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXKnY-0005i9-JP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:35:07 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46562) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXKnY-0005i5-CU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:35:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aXKnX-0003LY-0W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 04:35:03 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-54.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.54]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 04:35:02 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-54.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 04:35:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-54.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9Lbut3ifbA9DFc/X5HOVFr5mpjo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109237 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe writes: >> Why? > > Most people want to delete whitespace because of > version control. They're working in a team that uses > a VC program of some sort. There's little reason to > delete whitespace otherwise, it doesn't cause any > problems for editing or take up much hard > disk space. > > In that case the programmer wants to make changes to > a specific part of a file. Deleting whitespace from > the whole file will cause other changes elsewhere. > Causing spurious changes for whitespace reasons is > frowned upon in most teams. Yes, so why not have it automatized once and for all and then never have to think about it? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573