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: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 01:02:56 +0100 Message-ID: <878u28mj7z.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87d1rkmo7p.fsf@debian.uxu> <87mvqov2dk.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456445018 19506 80.91.229.3 (26 Feb 2016 00:03:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:03:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 26 01:03:28 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 1aZ5sV-0000Bv-Tl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 01:03:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46556 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZ5sS-0006cq-1j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:03:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55705) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZ5sI-0006bS-1U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:03:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZ5sD-0002Mn-1I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:03:13 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37661) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZ5sC-0002MN-Ra for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:03:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aZ5s8-0008RB-1p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 01:03:04 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-170.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 01:03:04 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-170.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 01:03:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-170.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:awGubKtlX11GTioN+9AMJIYn9Wo= 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:109318 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe writes: >> That will only be the case once. > > No it won't. It'll be like that until every line > that has had whitespace changes ceases to be > current. That could take decades. There's still > plenty of GNU Emacs that comes from the first > check-in to version-control in 80s. I'll be like that once for every file. You can even do it all at once! After, add automatization and people can't break it even if they want to: 1. There is no trailing whitespace anywhere in the source. - and - 2. It is impossible to add any because it is automatically removed upon submitted changes including the addition of new files... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573