Re: [emms-help] `nuke-trailing-whitespace'

[William XWL]

Jorgen Schaefer <address@hidden> writes:

> William XWL <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> When coding, i tend to `nuke-trailing-whitespace' all the time to make
>> codes more clean. Is this good or bad? :-)
>
> Trailing whitespace is usually not good, so yes, that's good :-)
>
>>From the docstring:
>
>    This is a useful function to put on `write-file-hooks'.
>
>
> Does anyone know what the difference between
> `delete-trailing-whitespace' and `nuke-trailing-whitespace' is
> exactly, and which is preferable?

No idea either. :( Maybe the differences lie in:

`delete-trailing-whitespace' docstring:

    A formfeed is not considered whitespace by this function.

But I don't know what's defined as a formfeed.

I thought i chose `nuke-trailing-whitespace' only for its name sounds
better.

-- 
William