'Cause I edit CMSSW in 3 different envs and I do not have all of my .emacs in sync.

Anyway, I have no intention to start a religious war about editing/formatting and similar things, since the code is there to demonstrate we miserably failed on this.

Feel free to take them out and resubmit a pull request, if you deem so: for sure I do not want to discuss stylistic emacs-directives in comments.

By the way: getting rid of useless spaces at the end of a line is, IMHO, a good practice in general that I hoped would have been taken by everybody.