Re: delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files

[Kevin Rodgers]

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
> > <<default>>         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