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authorAlison Chaiken <alison_chaiken@mentor.com>2015-01-25 19:26:01 -0800
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2015-01-28 12:05:46 -0700
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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>
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@@ -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