bug#4538: 23.1; kill-line doesn't with show-trailing-whitespace

[Glenn Morris]

andy.ling@quantel.com wrote:

> I can't believe everybody wants this behaviour. So to that end can I
> suggest the traditional emacs approach is adopted and it is made
> configurable.

Yes, but there shouldn't be options for absolutely everything.
The current behaviour makes no sense at all to me.
Let's see if anyone else has anything to say on this matter...