# Whitespace options 3 messages from 2009-04-02 to 2009-04-03. Participants: Gerd Knops, Joshua Juran, Miles Bader. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/18697 ## Gerd Knops, 2009-04-02 19:18 Subject: Whitespace options Message-ID: <3C72F4A7-9B7A-44D0-B13D-FD534EB02C27@bitart.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/3C72F4A7-9B7A-44D0-B13D-FD534EB02C27%40bitart.com ``` Hi all, 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. The reason is that many editors (especially those supporting indent- based code folding) keep 'empty' lines at the current indentation level. git (with default settings) flags all those lines. I know I could just remove 'trailing-space' from 'core.whitespace', but I would actually still like be notified about the case where a line that is not whitespace only ends with trailing whitespace. Thanks Gerd ``` ## Joshua Juran, 2009-04-03 02:15 Subject: Re: Whitespace options Message-ID: <612E4BF7-3230-462A-8A82-1E268F9A7632@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/612E4BF7-3230-462A-8A82-1E268F9A7632%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: <3C72F4A7-9B7A-44D0-B13D-FD534EB02C27@bitart.com> ``` 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 ``` ## Miles Bader, 2009-04-03 02:39 Subject: Re: Whitespace options Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/buoab6yjw9m.fsf%40dhlpc061.dev.necel.com In-Reply-To: <3C72F4A7-9B7A-44D0-B13D-FD534EB02C27@bitart.com> ``` Gerd Knops writes: > The reason is that many editors (especially those supporting indent- > based code folding) keep 'empty' lines at the current indentation > level. git (with default settings) flags all those lines. That sounds like very fragile behavior on the part of the editor -- it sounds like they assume that all source code was created by their editor, and will never be touched by any other tool... -Miles -- Suburbia: where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them. ```