Re: the war on trailing whitespace

From: MIke Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 27, 2006, 02:50 UTC
Message-ID: <1141008633.7593.13.camel@homer>
In-Reply-To: <20060226202617.GH7851@redhat.com>

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 15:26 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:

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> I think I have the same anal-retentive problem Andrew has, because I have ..
> 
> highlight RedundantSpaces term=standout ctermbg=red guibg=red
> match RedundantSpaces /\s\+$\| \+\ze\t/
> 
> in my .vimrc, which highlights this (and other trailing whitespace) as
> a big red blob.  I do this in part for the same reason Andrew does,
> so that when someone sends me a diff with a zillion spaces at the EOL,
> it screams at me, I spot them, and chop them out.

Dang, I'm _not_ perfect after all ;-). I just tried this on a patch of mine, and up popped a few angry red blobs even though I try to be careful. Perhaps someone should add more pet peeve thingies to it and post it to lkml, or put it some place people can be pointed at.

	-Mike