Hmm. I have to say I'm surprised that people are advocating for using trailing whitespace at all, as it seemed to me to be quite universally reviled in the programming world. But on some reflection, the only real problem with trailing whitespace - other than that it bloats files and that it, er, grates on certain types of minds :) - is that people remove it from, or, though I imagine this is rare, add it to otherwise untouched lines. I guess if hypothetically we had stuck to a "no trailing whitespace policy" from day 1 of Sage development, such a policy would have minimized diff cruft. But Sage's codebase is already so big that perhaps the best policy is just "don't purposelessly add or remove whitespace to lines that you aren't otherwise editing". As far as that goes, Jason's .emacs snippet seems useful for the developer's guide, indeed.
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