On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Thompson, David <dthomps...@worcester.edu> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> wrote: >> >> But, my question was NOT: how can I see white spaces. Rather: is there >> a Guix coding style "rule" which states that white spaces there are >> undesired. >> >> I personally prefer to have them, because then, if I use M-up/down, I >> move to the beginning/end of a whole top-level block, without stopping >> at internal points and that's what I want most of the time. >> >> So, these spaces are not just coding artifacts, but have some use. > > There should be *no* trailing whitespace in submitted patches, and we > should add a note about it to our contribution guidelines if it's not > already there.
OK, I will delete those spaces then. But, I'm curious about the rationale for such a rule. Regards, Fede
