jidanni@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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
CodingStyle applies to *patches* not to discussion. In how many of those
emails you analyzed were there any trailing whitespace in a patch?
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