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Re: removing white space highlight


From: Robert Thorpe
Subject: Re: removing white space highlight
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 02:58:34 +0000

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> writes:
>
>>> That will only be the case once.
>>
>> No it won't. It'll be like that until every line
>> that has had whitespace changes ceases to be
>> current. That could take decades. There's still
>> plenty of GNU Emacs that comes from the first
>> check-in to version-control in 80s.
>
> I'll be like that once for every file.

Yes, for decades.

That's far too high a price to pay for being perfectionist about
whitespace.

I don't think you understand how useful blaming is to people who do
maintenance programing.  I'm not sure you really understand what I mean.

BR,
Robert Thorpe




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