Re: Mixing whitespace and topical changes

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org> writes:
>         How many of us are there ? Is this such a big deal ?
>
> (require 'whitespace)
> (add-hook 'write-file-hooks #'(lambda () (whitespace-cleanup) nil))

Er, this applies to _every_ file, meaning that Gnus hackers will start
messing up every other package they hack on.

They could implement some sort of filename-specific filter so that the
hook only applies to Gnus, but that of course is an extra bit of
annoyance, and in fact it's exactly the same thing you claimed was too
annoying for you to do!

I think this is a non-starter.

-Miles

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