Re: delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files

[Richard Stallman]

    >> 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:

We could give them Word syntax.

Since they don't normally appear in proper English text, it is hard to
argue that any choice of syntax is fundamentally wrong.  It is just a
matter of what seems marginally better.  This problem is an argument
that Word is marginally better than Whitespace.