[phobos] Annoying whitespace diffs

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday 22 August 2010 14:20:41 Walter Bright wrote:
> A lot of checkins to Phobos wind up with a lot of invisible changes,
> because:
> 
> 1. random addition and subtraction of tabs
> 2. random appearance and disappearance of trailing whitespace
> 
> I'd like to put an end to this, with the following rules:
> 
> 1. no tabs are allowed
> 2. no trailing whitespace is allowed

That would certainly be nice. And some editors should be able to take care of 
this for you - either because of the settings used when saving or through 
commands that you can run. For instance, vim has :retab which replaces all tabs 
with spaces. Personally, I set up vim to highlight all tabs and trailing spaces, 
so having them becomes a bit of an eyesore.

- Jonathan M Davis