Thread:Manual talk:Coding conventions/Trailing whitespace/reply (3)

The intention of the policy is to make it easier on people who are using text editors like Notepad++ (which I use extensively), where pressing the End key on the keyboard goes all the way to the end of the line, not to the end of last visible text. And considering removing extra whitespace is a trivial operation on almost all text editors (even Notepad++), it is an easy fix to a sometimes annoying bug.

Additionally, there is absolutely no way I will agree with removing this whitespace guideline unless there is a way to remove the goddamn red highlighting that appears all over diffs. Although even if there is a way, like I mentioned above, I don't see why we should be removing this guideline.