From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: removing white space highlight Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 02:58:34 +0000 Message-ID: <87io1cuqhx.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <878u28mj7z.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456455545 9333 80.91.229.3 (26 Feb 2016 02:59:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 02:59:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 26 03:58:54 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 1aZ8cH-0005cn-7D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 03:58:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46957 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZ8cG-0005rB-Bk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:58:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60426) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZ8c6-0005r5-4E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:58:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZ8c2-0003d1-T5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:58:41 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp09.blacknight.com ([46.22.139.14]:39192) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZ8c2-0003cw-Mg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:58:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail05.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.26]) by outbound-smtp09.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A9D1E1C224F for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 02:58:35 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: (qmail 7082 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2016 02:58:35 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[93.107.21.90]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 26 Feb 2016 02:58:35 -0000 In-Reply-To: <878u28mj7z.fsf@debian.uxu> (message from Emanuel Berg on Fri, 26 Feb 2016 01:02:56 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 46.22.139.14 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:109319 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > 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. Yes, for decades. That's far too high a price to pay for being perfectionist about whitespace. I don't think you understand how useful blaming is to people who do maintenance programing. I'm not sure you really understand what I mean. BR, Robert Thorpe