Gentlemen, I couldn't help but notice a certain Linus B. Torvalds is producing mail with trailing whitespace. I recall one should (linux-doc-*/Documentation/CodingStyle*:) "Get a decent editor and don't leave whitespace at the end of lines." Indeed, with my GNU Emacs show-trailing-whitespace X-ray eyespecs on all day, whitespace becomes screaming purple space, so you can't blame me for noticing. Anyway, I have analyzed his messages, (User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23)) and discovered that the whitespace phenomenon almost always occurs if the lines are more than 60 characters long, the "danger zone", we might say. $ perl -nwle 'print length if / $/' recent_linus_postings| sort|uniq -c|sort -k 2nr 1 77 1 76 17 75 17 74 11 73 18 72 12 71 6 70 8 69 6 68 2 67 1 66 2 64 1 63 1 40 9 2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html