On Thursday, June 3, 2004 at 14:48:37, Milan Zamazal wrote: > >>>>> "MM" == Matthieu Moy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MM> I've updated the HACKING file to ask everybody to configure > MM> their Emacs to remove whitespaces. Please, do it, or if you > MM> have strong objection to this, please argue here so that > MM> everybody disables this config. > > I think it's a good idea to enable it for xtla, but it is a bad idea > to enable it globally for the following reasons: > > - There are files where trailing whitespace is significant. > > - Similar problems in other projects. > > For those who care I'd suggest to use something like (*) > > (defun my-delete-trailing-whitespace () > (when (string-match "/xtla" (or (buffer-file-name) "")) > (delete-trailing-whitespace))) > (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'my-delete-trailing-whitespace)
Looks pretty similar to the one I started with > and before using it to remove trailing whitespace from all xtla > files at once now (just applied `tla undo' as the only way to revert > a saved xtla file;-). > > (*) Using file local variables might be even better, but I don't > know an easy way to use them for this purpose. Look at my patch-90 on HACKING ... Bye Robert
