Re: removing white space highlight

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2016-02-21, at 04:31, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:

> Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> writes:
>
>>> Why?
>>
>> Most people want to delete whitespace because of
>> version control. They're working in a team that uses
>> a VC program of some sort. There's little reason to
>> delete whitespace otherwise, it doesn't cause any
>> problems for editing or take up much hard
>> disk space.
>>
>> In that case the programmer wants to make changes to
>> a specific part of a file. Deleting whitespace from
>> the whole file will cause other changes elsewhere.
>> Causing spurious changes for whitespace reasons is
>> frowned upon in most teams.
>
> Yes, so why not have it automatized once and for all
> and then never have to think about it?

This assumes that /everyone/ on the team does the same, right?  It need
not be the case.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University