[RFC] whitespace.el

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

skip at pobox.com writes:

 > I think the best place for it would be as a write-file-hook though
 > I worry about it not being aware of Python's triple-quoted strings
 > which can extend over multiple lines and which might presumably
 > contain legitimate trailing whitespace.

I note that Tim Peters thinks that (as with MIME quoted printable) the
last character of trailing whitespace should be written \x20 or \x09.
It would be rude to disagree with sweet ol' Uncle Timmy.<wink>