Re: Emacs removes whitespaces at the end of lines

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

"F. Unglaub" <f.unglaub@gmail.com> writes:

Hi!

>> Back to the problem: Normally, emacs should not do that, so I guess
>> that's something you (or your sysadmin) configured.  Something like:
>>
>>   (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace)
>>
>> So grep your ~/.emacs and the files in the site-lisp directory for
>> `delete-trailing-whitespace'.
>
> I can only find delete-trailing-whitespace in my rails-mode.el
> file. And I'm certain that I'm not using rails-mode for posting emails
> and news.

Well, it could be that rails-mode adds that to some hook globally.  In
the worst case, then simply loading the mode would cause that behavior.

Please poste the relevant lines of rails-mode, then we'll see if they
are the culprit.

Bye,
Tassilo