From e98047818ecfa327aebc82733fd96800b0d344cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Na=C3=AFm=20Favier?= <n@monade.li>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 01:30:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] .editorconfig: disallow trailing whitespace for markdown
 again

Although trailing whitespace is significant, there's no good reason to
use that feature.
---
 .editorconfig | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
index a4f216d71a22..3ff05f9a7fa0 100644
--- a/.editorconfig
+++ b/.editorconfig
@@ -55,10 +55,13 @@ trim_trailing_whitespace = unset
 [*.lock]
 indent_size = unset
 
-# trailing whitespace is an actual syntax element of classic Markdown/
-# CommonMark to enforce a line break
+# Although Markdown/CommonMark allows using two trailing spaces to denote
+# a hard line break, we do not use that feature in nixpkgs since
+# it forces the surrounding paragraph to become a <literallayout> which
+# does not wrap reasonably.
+# Instead of a hard line break, start a new paragraph by inserting a blank line.
 [*.md]
-trim_trailing_whitespace = unset
+trim_trailing_whitespace = true
 
 # binaries
 [*.nib]