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: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:44:18 +0000 Message-ID: <87twkzc4yl.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <87bn78w95s.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456274688 30515 80.91.229.3 (24 Feb 2016 00:44:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:44:48 +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 Wed Feb 24 01:44:38 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 1aYNZF-0001nF-0x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 01:44:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60779 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYNZE-0008WG-Bt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:44:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46356) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYNZ3-0008WA-VD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:44:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYNYz-0003JK-Te for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:44:25 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp03.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.16]:35747) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYNYz-0003JG-NU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:44:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail01.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.10]) by outbound-smtp03.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 17A3A98E6C for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:44:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 17565 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2016 00:44:18 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.77.41.16]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 24 Feb 2016 00:44:18 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87bn78w95s.fsf@debian.uxu> (message from Emanuel Berg on Tue, 23 Feb 2016 01:41:03 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.16 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:109277 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Robert Thorpe 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