Hi all, apparently i am one of the people who happily add spaces at the end of lines (more or less unconciously but i think it also relates to my vim usage patterns, whatever). I remember Armin complained once about these extra spaces. The main problem with these extra spaces is that if a someone's editor automatically scraps those whitespaces (like apparently, Armin's emacs did) then that someone will produce large unmeaningful diffs. Now my question is, do we want to "enforce" or at least state in our coding-style document one policy or the other? I see two options: 1. you should NOT use editor settings that scrap trailing whitespace on source code or documentation. You will note "wrong" editor settings when you see 'svn diff's ala:: - some line content + some line content which indicate that you only changed whitespace. or 2. you should use editor settings that scrap trailing whitespace on source code and documentation Obviously, the second option should be accompanied by a monster-commit changing all those lines in one go. What do you think? cheers, holger