Re: often produces wasteful trailing blanks

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:48:42 -0500
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> 
> Alper, maybe it would be possible for the output routine to notice when
> it outputs a newline, and then eradicate any preceding space/tabs?  I'm
> not sure, but that's what comes to mind.  (Eli, do you have any thoughts
> on this?)

I don't think this would do any harm.  One place to do this kind of
trailing whitespace removal is in the makeinfo.c:flush_output function
(which is supposed to be the only place where the actual output
happens).