Re: removing white space highlight

[Robert Thorpe]

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

> Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> writes:
>
>> How do you do that without creating lots of
>> check-ins to the VC system?
>>
>> Of course, making the VC program treat whitespace
>> specially is an option. I think it's one some people
>> are looking into. AFAIK it's not there yet though.
>
> Upon submission:
>
>     emacs -Q -batch FILE -eval '(delete-trailing-whitespace)' -f save-buffer

Suppose a programmer makes a small change to a file.  Then the above is
run, because of whitespace changes that could lead to hundreds of
changes.  After that, how does anyone make sense of the VC annotated
version of the file?

BR,
Robert Thorpe