Re: delete-trailing-whitespace and binary files

[Stefan Monnier]

> text-mode is derived from Fundamental-mode, which has
> a somewhat peculiar (IMO) interpretation of "whitespace":

> C-@ .. SPC            which means: whitespace
> DEL .. ÿ              which means: whitespace
>                       which means: whitespace
>       .. ​            which means: whitespace
> <<default>>           which means: whitespace

This looks wrong.  Why should all the control chars be considered whitespace
in text-mode?  Rather than try to use another major mode I think we should
fix the above.


        Stefan