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In article <818560205snx@holly.demon.co.uk>
           mcr@holly.demon.co.uk "Mark Rogers" writes:

>Which editor are you using? Surely stripping whitespace is optional and
>can be disabled via some commandline argument? I agree in many cases it
>is useful, but any editor which doesn't have a "do *only* what I tell
>you to do" mode will not last long on my hard disk.

Any editor which isn't configurable the way *I* want (including
redefinition of any key, including alpha, during editing) won't last
long on my machine.  I haven't found one I like yet - the old IBM PE
comes close, but it strips whitespace from the end of lines with no
'off' for that.  Since that's the action I want 99% of the time, it's
fine for me.

>(One of the editors I am currently looking at migrating to will even
>handle binary files intelligently; imagine one of those which stripped
>trailing whitespace :-)

I don't expect binary editors to do anything...

I did suggest a facility in SNEWS to add the .sig after editing, but it
was thought that it wasn't wanted.  I don't mind (looking through
UseNet, I see more without the --<space> than with anyway, I just don't
put it in at all)...

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