Re: Trailing whitespace removal patch for manual

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:38:38PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > This patch removes trailing whitespace (again) from the manuals in
> > gcc/doc.  It passes "make info" and "make dvi".  Applied to mainline.
> >
> > Should trailing whitespace in general be removed from the whole source
> > tree (except for the cpp testsuite)?
> 
> Only if lack of whitespace it is enforced mechanically on commit (or
> during make).  Otherwise, trailing whitespace will be introduced
> pretty soon again.

"make nowhitespace" perhaps?  Removing trailing whitespace is a one-liner
with a recent version of sed(1).  Looping over the source files and applying
sed would be trivial.

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