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From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: removing white space highlight
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:44:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twkzc4yl.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bn78w95s.fsf@debian.uxu> (message from Emanuel Berg on Tue, 23 Feb 2016 01:41:03 +0100)

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> 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.

How do you do that without creating lots of check-ins to the VC system?

Of course, making the VC program treat whitespace specially is an
option.  I think it's one some people are looking into.  AFAIK it's not
there yet though.

BR,
Robert Thorpe



  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-24  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-18 10:06 removing white space highlight Luca Ferrari
2016-02-18 10:19 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2016-02-18 10:54   ` Luca Ferrari
2016-02-18 10:30     ` tomas
2016-02-18 13:34       ` Luca Ferrari
2016-02-18 13:17         ` tomas
2016-02-18 14:37           ` Luca Ferrari
2016-02-18 14:15             ` tomas
2016-02-18 16:08               ` Luca Ferrari
2016-02-19  0:23                 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-19  1:05                   ` Drew Adams
2016-02-19 16:02                   ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-19 20:43                     ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-19 20:50                       ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-20  0:30                         ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-20 19:08 ` Bob Proulx
2016-02-21  0:32   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-21  1:34     ` Bob Proulx
2016-02-21  1:48       ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-21  3:27         ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-21  3:31           ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-21  5:00             ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-21  6:10               ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-21 11:48             ` tomas
2016-02-21 17:13               ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-23  0:33                 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-23  0:41                   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-24  0:44                     ` Robert Thorpe [this message]
2016-02-24  1:41                       ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-24 20:38                         ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-25  0:10                           ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-25  8:47                             ` Luca Ferrari
2016-02-25  9:29                               ` Christian Kruse
2016-02-25 19:58                             ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-25 20:10                               ` vc-region-history promotion (was: removing white space highlight) Stefan Monnier
2016-02-25 22:15                               ` removing white space highlight Emanuel Berg
2016-02-25 22:41                                 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-26  0:02                                   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-26  2:58                                     ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-26  3:29                                       ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-26  6:08                                         ` Bob Proulx
2016-02-26 19:48                                           ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-27 20:54                                         ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-28  2:43                                           ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-28 18:09                                             ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-29  0:52                                               ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-29  2:43                                                 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-22 14:05   ` Luca Ferrari
2016-02-23  0:13     ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-23  0:34     ` Robert Thorpe

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