Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761390AbXF1GIS (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:08:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752375AbXF1GIJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:08:09 -0400 Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.9]:54629 "EHLO mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751182AbXF1GIJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:08:09 -0400 Message-ID: <46835047.8080600@kernel.org> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:08:07 -0700 From: Josh Triplett User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070622) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dave young CC: Jan Engelhardt , Chris Shoemaker , Josh Triplett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Add information about trailing whitespace. References: <1182967160.8970.108.camel@josh-work.beaverton.ibm.com> <20070627180552.GA746@pe.Belkin> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1746 Lines: 44 dave young wrote: > 2007/6/27, Jan Engelhardt : >> On Jun 27 2007 14:05, Chris Shoemaker wrote: >>> What I'd really like to see is, _why_ is trailing whitespace >>> considered harmful? >> Consumes bytes you'll never see :) >> >>> Something about MUAs not preserving it or something? >> Well, there is format=flowed. text/plain mails with a trailing blank at the end >> of line indicates the paragraph continues -- as a curtesy for mail readers with >> non-fixed-font to display the paragraph coherently rather than breaking it at >> 72/80 columns. >> >> >> Jan >> -- >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >> > > There's more potential to cause lines end with whitespace. How about > remove the "Some editors with ..." like this : > > +Do not leave trailing whitespace at the ends of lines. > + [...] Many other causes for trailing whitespace exist. However, I wanted to mention one of the common causes. If you have other common causes in mind, and even better if you have ways to avoid them, we should add those too. It might make sense to put a paragraph break after the first sentence, though, and split the information about editors into its own paragraph, adding more paragraphs if people suggest other possibilities. - Josh Triplett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/