[Linux-ia64] Re: trailing white space...

[Linux-ia64] Re: trailing white space...

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Fri, 30 May 2003 23:46:27 -0500, Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> said:

  Chris> On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 05:34:31PM -0700, David Mosberger
  Chris> wrote:
  >> Nah, that's OK.  With patches it's much easier to make trivial
  >> changes, such as deleting the trailing whitespace that everybody
  >> seems to love so much... ;-)

  Chris> One of my pet gripes :)

  Chris> Emacs users can (and should!)  consider:

  Chris> 	(setq show-trailing-whitespace t)

Yeah, that does make it pretty hard to ignore, doesn't it? ;-)

	--david

[Linux-ia64] Re: trailing white space...

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 11:46:27PM -0500, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> Emacs users can (and should!)  consider:
> 
> 	(setq show-trailing-whitespace t)

Anything similar for vi and gvim?

	Sam

RE: [Linux-ia64] Re: trailing white space...

[Wichmann, Mats D]

> > Emacs users can (and should!)  consider:
> > 
> > 	(setq show-trailing-whitespace t)
> 
> Anything similar for vi and gvim?

:set list

but in either case this just shows you
the stuff, it doesn't remove it.
If it's a persistent problem, a simple
filter is easier to use.  I find Python's
rstrip string method useful for this,
i.e. if you have a line of text in 'line',

    line = line.rstrip()

saves a new copy of the line with the
trailing whitespace removed.

Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: trailing white space...

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:23:51AM -0700, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:

> but in either case this just shows you
> the stuff, it doesn't remove it.

I think that's how it should be... removing it on existing files w/o
care is bad.

> If it's a persistent problem, a simple
> filter is easier to use.

For new files sure, for existing files I would rather people ensure
hunsk they edit and linees they edit contain no/few whitespace
changes.


> I find Python's rstrip string method useful for this, i.e. if you
> have a line of text in 'line',
> 
>     line = line.rstrip()
> 
> saves a new copy of the line with the
> trailing whitespace removed.

What's wrong with sed?


  --cw