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Re: Whitespace options

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JJJoshua Juran <jjuran@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 3, 2009, 02:15 UTC
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On Apr 2, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Gerd Knops wrote:
> I think there should be a whitespace option that ignores lines that  
> consists completely of whitespace vs lines with actual trailing  
> whitespace preceded by non-whitespace.
+1
> The reason is that many editors (especially those supporting indent- 
> based code folding) keep 'empty' lines at the current indentation  
> level.
As do some users, out of personal preference.
Josh
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