Highlighting trailing spaces
Pavel Roskin
proski at gnu.org
Fri Jan 31 18:28:35 UTC 2003
Hello, Andrew!
I have noticed that you added highlighting for trailing spaces in C. I
believe that your patch should be reverted, at least for the 4.6.0
release. I don't want to see it reported like a bug.
Some people (myself included) use the internal editor to read other
people's code. I don't want to fix minor sloppiness in the code I didn't
write. Highlighting for trailing spaces reduces readability of the code.
If my job is to fix a bug and submit a minimal patch to the author, the
red tails will distract me from my job.
. From the mcedit manual:
Also remember that the aim of syntax highlighting is to make
programming less prone to error, not to make code look pretty.
I would also add "not to enforce formatting rules". It's annoying and
should be applied only to the person who is fully in control of the code.
mcedit just cannot do it.
That's my opinion, but I'd like to hear from other developers. I'm
leaving the patch in CVS for now, but I'll remove it before the release
unless somebody comes with serious arguments in favor of keeping it.
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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