From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: removing white space highlight Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:10:20 +0100 Message-ID: <87ziupsl8z.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87povmubo9.fsf@debian.uxu> <87povl974d.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456359335 31077 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2016 00:15:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:15:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 25 01:15:26 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 1aYjaV-00075E-GV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:15:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39189 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYjaU-0005aV-Vq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:15:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60544) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYjaJ-0005Y3-HB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:15:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYjaE-0003FK-77 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:15:11 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38231) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYjaE-0003DY-1E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:15:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aYjaC-0006s1-Mw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:15:04 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-170.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:15:04 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-170.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:15:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-170.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QVAhSdL1pGbywiKLBz6mfVk28IA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:109304 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe writes: > Suppose a programmer makes a small change to a file. > Then the above is run, because of whitespace changes > that could lead to hundreds of changes. After that, > how does anyone make sense of the VC annotated > version of the file? It will be easier then before to make sense of that file, because after the hundreds of changes it'll look a lot better. People will get the new version and that will replace their local ones which will also be upgraded (to the better). Next time there is an edit there will be no need to fix hundreds of meaningless whitespaces. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573