[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] dir-locals.el: show-trailing-whitespace and whitespace support

[Andres Gomez]

On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 12:04 -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Andres Gomez <agomez at igalia.com> wrote:

> > It will highlight malformed indentation
> 
> Malformed meaning what?

Usage of tabs, instead of spaces.

> > and change color of the
> > characters exceeding the line length limit (>78 chars).
> 
> Ah. I don't think that'll go over too well. I know I'd hate it at
> least. My window width is 80 chars anyways, so that's a much more
> obvious indicator of when to stop typing. Some lines do go over 80
> though and are fine. No need to assault someone reading code...

The change of color is not so annoying, IMHO, but if this is going to
cause trouble to other developers, I suppose, I will drop it.

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Br,

Andres