From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Box cursor at EoL Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 01:07:50 +0200 Message-ID: <877d0wd92x.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <25405.40924.299467.425535@tux.local> <83pmf6rz4g.fsf@gnu.org> <87sfk1zvgr.fsf@dataswamp.org> <0988b28d-329c-c9cf-df05-2775e267dd33@us.ibm.com> <871qr73xhl.fsf@dataswamp.org> <0f8c0caa-2f51-2db9-3fac-8198bee5e0bc@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30229"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:JIpm05Mcf1331oRrgXDjd8BfqFQ= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 19 12:02:48 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ol5uS-0007dp-Kj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2022 12:02:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33972 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ol5uR-0002zi-89 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2022 06:02:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48758) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1okvgs-0001Yw-8O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:08:06 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:37104) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1okvgm-0004UD-Kj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:08:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1okvgj-000AAB-Cc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2022 01:07:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 05:57:53 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:140155 Archived-At: Kenneth Goldman wrote: > To git (and most version control systems), a change is > a change. The patch history should not be cluttered with > changes that don't change anything. It think they could and should be tweaked so that such changes, which should be easy to do in this case at least, should not be considered changes. But even more to the point, if trailing whitespace don't change anything, why have them _at all_? >> And even so, if we set Emacs to behave as I suggest (always >> remove them), wouldn't that mean _less_ such changes are >> reported (occur) in the long run? > > No, because not every developer on a project uses emacs. > Their loss! But other editors, and also the VCS that you mention, could auto-remove them as well, I'm sure. After that, why introduce them? Problem solved. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal