diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
index 5f8ff85..c71c66e 100644
--- a/FAQ
+++ b/FAQ
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ Solutions:
 
 * Enforce the usage of a stabilized API (practically, API 25) with::
 
-    env CFLAGS=-DFUSE_USE_VERSION=25 python setup.py build 
+    env CFLAGS=-DFUSE_USE_VERSION=25 python setup.py build
 
 * Upgrade your FUSE installation. As of writing this, 2.6.0-pre3 is available.
 
-When I use a dedicated file class, how can I tell apart the cases when an instance of it is instantiated from a ``CREATE`` callback and when it's instantiated from an ``OPEN`` callback? 
+When I use a dedicated file class, how can I tell apart the cases when an instance of it is instantiated from a ``CREATE`` callback and when it's instantiated from an ``OPEN`` callback?
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 If your file class is instantiated via ``FUSE_OPEN``, then it's
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 2bcd23a..92fdc83 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ REQUIREMENTS:
  - In general, Python 2.3 or newer.
    Version specific notes:
    - 2.4: this is the version the code is developed with, so you can
-     expect this one to work the most smoothly. 
-   - 2.3: in general, it seems to be useable. However, the optparse 
+     expect this one to work the most smoothly.
+   - 2.3: in general, it seems to be useable. However, the optparse
      module of Python 2.3 is out of date. This doesn't have fatal
      consequences, but if you want nice help optput / version info,
      you should either use optparse.py from 2.4 or install a recent
diff --git a/README.historic b/README.historic
index f768f5f..18cbf7c 100644
--- a/README.historic
+++ b/README.historic
@@ -37,11 +37,11 @@ Updated 13-Dec-2003 by David McNab <david@rebirthing.co.nz>
 
     - added 'code.leo' file for convenience of those who use the Leo
       code editor (leo.sf.net)
-    
+
     - added support for 'statfs' and 'fsync' methods (refer xmp.py)
 
 Updated Dec 2003 by David McNab <david@rebirthing.co.nz>:
-    
+
     - added support for 'release' events (ie when file gets closed)
     - added __init__ to base class, which picks off parameters and
       stores them as instance attributes:
diff --git a/README.new_fusepy_api.rst b/README.new_fusepy_api.rst
index cf15955..6cd602e 100644
--- a/README.new_fusepy_api.rst
+++ b/README.new_fusepy_api.rst
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Let's see how these are implemented.
    out of Python's, so raising an exception makes no sense. We could
    wrap some fs methods into format valifiers; currently we don't do
    that.)
-   
+
 
 FUSE and the command line
 -------------------------
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ options (which are not understood by the lib, according to the help
 message), and also purges out these from self, so the remainder can be
 safely passed down to FUSE.
 
-.. [#] We can argue that it's not that sad. We just pass on to FUSE 
+.. [#] We can argue that it's not that sad. We just pass on to FUSE
    what we get from the user and that either eats it or blows up. Why
    would we want more sophistication?