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: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 01:41:03 +0100 Message-ID: <87bn78w95s.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87a8muq95m.fsf@debian.uxu> <87io1g8dvc.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456188105 3106 80.91.229.3 (23 Feb 2016 00:41:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 00:41:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 23 01:41:36 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 1aY12k-000633-OK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 01:41:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52871 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aY12g-0002sX-SK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:41:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39791) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aY12W-0002sF-CO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:41:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aY12R-00037Q-9Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:41:20 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38576) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aY12R-00037H-3C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:41:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aY12O-0005pB-Li for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 01:41:12 +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 ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 01:41:12 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-54.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 01:41:12 +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:X3gMEEm5RXl0pKmBzzg71P6CEy4= 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:109261 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe writes: > I the problem is worse than Tomas mentions. > What about past programmers? How do we get those to > behave themselves regarding whitespace? > Sadly it's impossible. Have the software do this automatically. Then past, present, and future programmers can misbehave all they want. Or submit correct files to begin with. Their choice. It is like a calculator. One person inputs 3 + 7 and another 11 - 1 for the number of fingers. The calculator still shows 10. Dig? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573