From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: the war on trailing whitespace Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:31:02 -0500 Message-ID: <20060226203102.GI7851@redhat.com> 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; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andrew Morton , junkio@cox.net, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 26 21:31:25 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 1FDSY8-0004HG-UR for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:31:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751162AbWBZUbW (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:31:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751165AbWBZUbW (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:31:22 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:34992 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751162AbWBZUbW (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:31:22 -0500 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k1QKVHcp000505; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:31:17 -0500 Received: from nwo.kernelslacker.org (vpn83-121.boston.redhat.com [172.16.83.121]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k1QKV6129156; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:31:07 -0500 Received: from nwo.kernelslacker.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by nwo.kernelslacker.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1QKV2pj018603; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:31:02 -0500 Received: (from davej@localhost) by nwo.kernelslacker.org (8.13.5/8.13.5/Submit) id k1QKV2EH018602; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:31:02 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: nwo.kernelslacker.org: davej set sender to davej@redhat.com using -f To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060226202617.GH7851@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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