Re: On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of Lines
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Re: On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of Lines         

Group: gnu.emacs.help · Group Profile
Author: Bernardo Bacic
Date: Sep 11, 2008 04:00

it was a dark and stormy night when ChristopherL said,
> Hello,
>
> When I overwrite a character in a file containing blank characters
> at the end my lines, Emacs takes them away on save! What can I do to
> prevent the loss of the blank characters?
>

'delete-trailing-whitespace' function has the effect you describe; check if
it's being hooked into something like 'before-save-hook in your .emacs file
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