From 039d19a143ee2386f5ab39f9065c987b1d65f91d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alison Chaiken <alison_chaiken@mentor.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:26:01 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] CodingStyle: enable emacs display of trailing whitespace
Suggest to developers who use emacs that they turn on the
instantaneous trailing-whitespace warning feature.
Signed-off-by: Alison Chaiken <alison_chaiken@mentor.com>
[jc: untabified to match its surroundings]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
---
Documentation/CodingStyle | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
index 618a33c940df6..449a8a19fc21f 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -527,6 +527,7 @@ values. To do the latter, you can stick the following in your .emacs file:
(string-match (expand-file-name "~/src/linux-trees")
filename))
(setq indent-tabs-mode t)
+ (setq show-trailing-whitespace t)
(c-set-style "linux-tabs-only")))))
This will make emacs go better with the kernel coding style for C
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