On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:47:59 +0000, Tim Harig wrote: > I have seen huge patches caused by nothing more then some edit that > accidently added a trailing space to a large number of lines. White > space mangling happens all the time without people even knowing about > it.
How does an edit accidentally add a trailing space to a large number of lines? (1) The programmer shifted the cursor to the end of the line, pressed space, moved down a line, shift to eol, press space, repeat a large number of times. I don't call that an "accident". (2) Some programmer used a tool that thought it was okay to add whitespace to the end of lines without being told to. I don't call that an accident either, I call that using a broken tool. So we keep coming back to work-arounds for tools that mangle your data for no good reason... -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
