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, 28 Feb 2016 03:43:33 +0100 Message-ID: <877fhph7vu.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87ziuokv2g.fsf@debian.uxu> <87ziul98nh.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456627454 1579 80.91.229.3 (28 Feb 2016 02:44:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 02:44:14 +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 28 03:44:04 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 1aZrL2-0002XX-Hv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 03:44:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57157 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZrL1-0002kA-Sn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:44:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50812) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZrKq-0002ju-SR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:43:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZrKn-0003wg-Lw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:43:52 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39671) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZrKn-0003wZ-F1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:43:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aZrKk-0002Ql-U4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 03:43:46 +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, 28 Feb 2016 03:43:46 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-54.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 03:43:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 36 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: sha1:4xf27/A05XcLyV1WtaHJejc3gaE= 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:109350 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe writes: > But, what if Harry just deleted some extraneous > whitespace from the end of the line? In that case we > can't be sure when important_parameter was last set. > It may be very old. You can do it to the entire project once (and do nothing else at that point). Then add automatic cleaning upon submission, don't log the cleaning, and last propagate the correct files to anyone who doesn't have them. > Not all version controls systems have that. Apparently not :) But I do (phew) > It's also not very well known and tools that use the > VC system (GUIs and Editors) may not use it. The editors don't need it, tho it can be useful for other purposes (e.g., your own files) and it doesn't hurt having it there as well. The automatization doesn't fare ill from you having it in your editor as well, as then it doesn't have to execute (nothing to do). Obviously the VC needs it because that is were the automatization should kick in. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573