From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: MIke Galbraith Subject: Re: the war on trailing whitespace Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 03:50:33 +0100 Message-ID: <1141008633.7593.13.camel@homer> References: <20060225174047.0e9a6d29.akpm@osdl.org> <7v1wxq7psj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060225210712.29b30f59.akpm@osdl.org> <20060226103604.2d97696c.akpm@osdl.org> <20060226202617.GH7851@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , junkio@cox.net, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 27 03:50:54 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FDYTE-0000EG-Ae for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 03:50:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750712AbWB0CuT (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:50:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750802AbWB0CuT (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:50:19 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:36579 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750712AbWB0CuR (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:50:17 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2006 02:50:15 -0000 Received: from dialin-212.223.97.193.germany.ecore.net (EHLO homer) [212.223.97.193] by mail.gmx.net (mp019) with SMTP; 27 Feb 2006 03:50:15 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14349625 To: Dave Jones In-Reply-To: <20060226202617.GH7851@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 15:26 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > 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