My emacs deletes trailing white space. How can I disable this behaviour?

Question

Upon save ( I think ), my emacs is deleting trailing white space. I don\'t want to commit those changes, only the parts I manually modify. Is there a way to disable that beh

Answer 1

Like suggested in this answer the deleting-trailing-whitespace hook might have been added to the before-save-hook hook.

To disable this eval (remove-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace) (type M-:).