From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: removing white space highlight Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 06:00:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87io1ivesd.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87egc6ltog.fsf@debian.uxu> <87vb5izqst.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <8760xiloy2.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456030854 12981 80.91.229.3 (21 Feb 2016 05:00:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 05:00:54 +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 Sun Feb 21 06:00:47 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 1aXM8U-0008L9-V1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 06:00:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38071 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXM8U-0004tL-8z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:00:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42814) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXM8G-0004t3-Ez for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:00:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXM8D-0004yj-8V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:00:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:45845) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXM8C-0004ya-Vv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:00:29 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EDEE9D2005; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 06:00:22 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id R7Km7KmNpl3r; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 06:00:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [109.232.24.28]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3D1069D2004; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 06:00:19 +0100 (CET) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 25.1.50.2 In-reply-to: <8760xiloy2.fsf@debian.uxu> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 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:109238 Archived-At: On 2016-02-21, at 04:31, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Robert Thorpe writes: > >>> Why? >> >> Most people want to delete whitespace because of >> version control. They're working in a team that uses >> a VC program of some sort. There's little reason to >> delete whitespace otherwise, it doesn't cause any >> problems for editing or take up much hard >> disk space. >> >> In that case the programmer wants to make changes to >> a specific part of a file. Deleting whitespace from >> the whole file will cause other changes elsewhere. >> Causing spurious changes for whitespace reasons is >> frowned upon in most teams. > > Yes, so why not have it automatized once and for all > and then never have to think about it? This assumes that /everyone/ on the team does the same, right? It need not be the case. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University