Re: On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of Lines

[Chris Giroir]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:21 PM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> ChristopherL <clusardi2k@aol.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>   When I overwrite a character in a file containing blank characters
>> at the end my lines, Emacs takes them away on save! What can I do to
>> prevent the loss of the blank characters?
>
> Disable whatever stuff you put into your .emacs file in order to get
> this behavior.
>

When I started my recent job this hit me when my cvs diffs were huge.
For me it was a ruby-on-rails help package that did it. Took me
forever to find it, but it's gone now!

> It is a good rule never to put anything into .emacs that you have not
> understood, regardless what figure of authority suggested that it would
> be a good idea to have.

Definitely good advice!

Chris G