Re: the war on trailing whitespace

From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Date: Feb 26, 2006, 20:31 UTC
Message-ID: <20060226203102.GI7851@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060226202617.GH7851@redhat.com>

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:26:17PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:

 > 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.

(seconds later, I find my .vimrc on master.k.o hasn't had this turned
 on so I find a billion instances of this mess in agp/cpufreq -- Bah).

		Dave

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