The rules is somewhat common sense. But I have had to tell people the rule (mostly to very new programmers). Interestingly I haven't found that they wanted to q

The rules is somewhat common sense. But I have had to tell people the rule (mostly to very new programmers). Interestingly I haven't found that they wanted to quibble about style, they just didn't notice they were doing things differently. Putting the correct thing in their .emacs usually clears things up (show-trailing-whitespace throws your loose whitespace habits right in your face).