From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 14:10:57 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149019962 25360 80.91.229.2 (30 May 2006 20:12:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 20:12:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 30 22:12:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FlAZt-0005Ez-U4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 22:12:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FlAZt-0001ay-BI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 16:12:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FlAZg-0001ag-P4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 16:12:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FlAZf-0001aR-10 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 16:12:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FlAZe-0001aO-VC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 16:12:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FlAfW-0002HN-Dr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 16:18:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FlAZR-00059C-Ka for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 22:12:05 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 22:12:05 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 22:12:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) In-Reply-To: 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:55497 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> text-mode is derived from Fundamental-mode, which has >> a somewhat peculiar (IMO) interpretation of "whitespace": > >> C-@ .. SPC which means: whitespace >> DEL .. ÿ which means: whitespace >> which means: whitespace >>   .. ​ which means: whitespace >> <> which means: whitespace > > This looks wrong. Why should all the control chars be considered whitespace > in text-mode? Rather than try to use another major mode I think we should > fix the above. That's what I thought, but I don't see a more appropriate choice in the Syntax Class Table node of the Emacs Lisp manual, which says this: | "Whitespace characters" (designated by ` ' or `-') separate symbols | and words from each other. Thanks, -- Kevin