On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 11:18 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > I just have these lines in my ~/.emacs: > > (autoload 'nuke-trailing-whitespace "nuke-trailing-whitespace" nil t) > > (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'nuke-trailing-whitespace) > > This sounds like it would remove all trailing whitespace in any file > you touch; that sounds like a pretty bad idea for thinks like "blame" > and will probably generate huge diffs for small changes -- or is this > only about new code you're writing? > > I use vim and it displays trailing whitespaces as blue dots for me: > set list > set listchars=tab:>-,trail:.,extends:>,precedes:<,nbsp:% > (the relevant config above is "trail:."; I find the other ones useful > as well)
Eek. That'd look bad. I believe this line is from Xavier's vimrc: set listchars=eol:•,tab:↦\ ,trail:»,extends:↷,precedes:↶ > The blue dots are not intrusive when I'm actually typing text or > reading code with trailing whitespace, yet allow me to see the issue > and fix it. > > > And then I don't have to think about anything. Except that it breaks > > my patches for other peoples' project which don't care about trailing > > whitespace. > > These people could use "patch -l" to apply your patches, but then I > think you shouldn't be stripping all trailing whitespace gratuitously. > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list