[cairo] War on trailing whitespace

[Steven Chaplin]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 18:51 -0500, Cory Watson wrote:
> On 6/6/06, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> > Fortunately, git provides a nice, (but inactive by default), mechanism
> > for avoiding the introduction of trailing whitespace. I'm asking all
> > cairo developers to enable the default pre-commit hook which will
> > complain about trailing whitespace. The way to do this is to simply
> > run:
> 
> For the vim'ing among us, I use this:
> 
> set list listchars=trail:.
> 
> trailing spaces are highlighted with periods so they are easily
> visible.  I'm sure someone else can chime in with similar tips for
> other editors.
> 
For emacs users:
(setq show-trailing-whitespace t)
in .emacs, will display trailing whitespace as red blocks

Meta-x delete-trailing-whitespace
Deletes all the trailing whitespace across the current buffer.

Steve

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