On Tue, 3 May 2011 22:52:25 +0200 (CEST), Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > <On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Michael Witten wrote: >> sed -i "s/[ $(printf '\t')]\{1,\}\$//" trunk/gcc/doc/extend.texi > > I believe we usually don't do whitespace changes just for the sake > of cleaning up things. > > Unless someone else indicates otherwise, I believe this patch is > rejected.
To what do we owe this tradition other than laziness? Shall I match the mindlessness of this rule by introducing a variant patch that also alters non-whitespace on the offending lines? Sincerely, Michael Witten