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"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

>> It may be valid, some projects use tabs for indentation and spaces
>> for alignment, e.g.:
>
> Yeah, I know.  I was hoping that the stripspace behavior was already
> specific enough to the linux-kernel style that we could just assume that 
> it was only used by developers on projects with the same style.

Actually I would consider linux kernel an example of such project
with spaces for alignment. Except that current tools are not to
the task. Someday...

Obviously other cases are valid, especially 'spaces before tabs'
which IMHO includes '8 or more non-consecutive initial spaces'.
And all trailing whitespace of course.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa