From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs removes whitespaces at the end of lines Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:41:56 +0200 Message-ID: <87my6i3vnv.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249238567 22767 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2009 18:42:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 18:42:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 02 20:42:40 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MXg0z-0005qq-Rc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:42:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34950 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MXg0y-00015Z-U2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:42:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MXg0e-00015K-D9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:42:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MXg0a-000158-Oi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:42:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58913 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MXg0a-000155-M2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:42:12 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:48266 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MXg0a-0001Ow-8N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:42:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MXg0P-0001DF-Dh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:42:01 +0000 Original-Received: from p54af0e5d.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.175.14.93]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:42:01 +0000 Original-Received: from tassilo by p54af0e5d.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:42:01 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54af0e5d.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MW9voWtdDFgAhMBevLTzKQ9nH9w= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66670 Archived-At: "F. Unglaub" 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