From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: diff-mode misinterprets empty lines. Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:31:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: <85ir3l767y.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196375651 22630 80.91.229.12 (29 Nov 2007 22:34:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:34:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 29 23:34:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IxrxW-00047v-8t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:34:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IxrxG-0001zD-Ez for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:33:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IxrvC-00012l-5n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:31:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ixrv6-00010g-Vk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:31:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ixrv6-00010W-Qe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:31:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ixrv6-0003rB-Ky for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:31:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ixrv5-0002TM-MN; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:31:43 -0500 In-reply-to: <85ir3l767y.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:26:25 +0100) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:84322 Archived-At: When people don't want trailing whitespace warnings to trigger in their editor, they should obviously amend diff-mode for that. But changing the diff format instead is insane. And that patch happens to have tolerance code intended to deal with utterly broken mailers is no excuse for that. Are you suggesting I should ask the diff maintainers to revert that change? That might be a good idea. But in the mean time let's make Emacs work with the format generated by diff 2.8.7. Even if diff 2.8.8 undoes this change, 2.8.7 won't disappear. Would someone please do that and ack?