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From: | malc |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] Patch removing spaces |
Date: | Mon, 19 May 2008 21:58:40 +0400 (MSD) |
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Ian Jackson wrote:
Balazs Attila-Mihaly \(Cd-MaN\) writes ("[Qemu-devel] Patch removingspaces"): If anyone is interested: a patch which removes spaces from the end of the lines. Compressed because it's rather big.Please don't apply this patch! Spaces at the ends of lines are indeed irritating and we should avoid them. But going out of our way to remove them is definitely wrong - it's reformatting, which is nearly always wrong in Free Software.
[..snip..] Preventive measure that makes the code look sufficiently ugly when tabs or trailing whitespace is present. Hands almost reflectively reach for `M-x nuke-trailing-whitespace' and `C-x h M-x untabify' (defface font-lock-ws-face '((((class color) (background dark)) (:background "white")) (((class color) (background light)) (:background "black")) (t (:bold t))) "Font Lock mode face used to highlight unwated whitespace." :group 'font-lock-faces) (setq font-lock-ws-face 'font-lock-ws-face) (defun font-lock-mode-hook-fn () (setq old-font-lock-keywords font-lock-keywords) (make-variable-buffer-local 'font-lock-keywords) (let ((elem (list (list "\\([ \t]+$\\)\\|\\(\t\\)" (list 0 font-lock-ws-face))))) (setq font-lock-keywords (append font-lock-keywords elem)))) (add-hook 'font-lock-mode-hook 'font-lock-mode-hook-fn) -- mailto:address@hidden
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