[Python-Dev] whitespace normalization (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Apr 25 22:10:22 CEST 2007

On 4/25/07, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

>> Well, there are editors that don't intelligently strip whitespace, so >> that people using them would be constantly pained by such a hook.

Guido> And they should. There really is no excuse for letting one Guido> developer's poor choice of tools cause later grief for all other Guido> developers. Just a little FYI, python-mode (the one Barry and I manage - dunno about the one distributed w/ GNU Emacs these days) is one of those tools that leaves trailing whitespace behind when advancing to the next line..

Funny -- that's not my experience. Perhaps this depends on a separate Emacs setting? That's what I always assumed.

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