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bug#5312: Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’ considered unsafe?
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#5312: Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’ considered unsafe? |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:25:27 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan> Of course, maybe you can come up with file formats where trailing
Stefan> whitespaces are seriously problematic as well. I just can't think
Stefan> of any off the top of my head.
> One seen recently -- on the groff list, IIRC -- involved continuation
> lines. <\><NL> works, <\><SP><NL> does not.
That also affects C, C++, Elisp, and many other formats. The fact that we
haven't mentioned them indicates that it's not considered "seriously
problematic" enough.
Actually, font-lock can also be used in those modes to highlight such
suspicious forms: it's more useful than show-trailing-whitespace since
it can more specifically target those trailing whitespaces that are
semantically significant.
Stefan
- bug#5312: Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’ considered unsafe?, Ludovic Courtès, 2010/01/05
- bug#5312: Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’ considered unsafe?, Stefan Monnier, 2010/01/05
- bug#5312: Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’ considered unsafe?, Ludovic Courtès, 2010/01/06
- bug#5312: Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’ considered unsafe?, Stefan Monnier, 2010/01/06
- bug#5312: Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’ considered unsafe?, Ludovic Courtès, 2010/01/06
- bug#5312: Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’ considered unsafe?, James Cloos, 2010/01/06
- bug#5312: Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’ considered unsafe?,
Stefan Monnier <=
- bug#5312: Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’ considered unsafe?, Kevin Rodgers, 2010/01/07
- bug#5312: Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’ considered unsafe?, Stefan Monnier, 2010/01/07
bug#5312: marked as done (Why is ‘show-trailing-whitespace’ considered unsafe?), Emacs bug Tracking System, 2010/01/14