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Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:19:03 -0700 (PDT) |
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
> > Trailing whitespace is an annoyance most of the time,
>
> That's the question - is it? For most Emacs users most of the time? Dunno;
just
> asking.
Yes, it is, please go to your favorite search engine and search for
trailing whitespace patch or trailing whitespace diff and see you many
hits you get.
> > and it's not to be conflated with the rest of the whitespace
> > differences (which diff-mode can ignore just fine -- C-c C-w).
>
> Yes, I know, which is why I didn't conflate them. I mentioned both, in case
> there is also some desire to deal with whitespace in general this way.
No, there isn't, I intentionally limited the topic to one thing because
of not wanting to have a long discussion that ends nowhere. So please
stick to the topic at hand.
> There could be a `diff' switch (or a pseudo-`diff' switch, handled only by
> Emacs) for trailing whitespace. Just as patch submitters need to get the
`diff'
> switches right for context diff etc. (`-c -w' or whatever), so could they
set
> the switch to show trailing whitespace.
There isn't such a flag, and more, users might not use diff, but
vc-diff.
- show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/07/16
- Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode, Miles Bader, 2009/07/16
- Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/07/16
- Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode, Miles Bader, 2009/07/16
- Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode, Óscar Fuentes, 2009/07/16
- Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode, Miles Bader, 2009/07/16
- Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/07/16
- Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode, Óscar Fuentes, 2009/07/17
- Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode, Miles Bader, 2009/07/17
- Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/07/17
- Re: show whitespace problems by default in diff-mode, Miles Bader, 2009/07/17