> And maybe would be nice to have the end-of-line spaces trimmed by default. Fossil necessarily saves *exactly* what it is given, with the unfortunate obligatory exception that it can optionally replace the newlines to a consistent style. Stripping trailing spaces would break certain files, possibly in subtle ways. e.g. at least one flavor of markdown uses [backslash-blank-blank to force a line break within a paragraph](https://commonmark.org/help/tutorial/03-paragraphs.html).