[Geany] [PATCH] Strip trailing spaces when editing

[Catalin Marinas]

On 26/09/2007, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:49:25 +0100, "Catalin Marinas"
> <catalin.marinas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My solution (this is actually the behaviour of emacs) is to strip the
> > trailing spaces of a single line when newline is inserted.
> Nice idea. I know the described problem when creating patches on
> sources where trailing spaces exist. In general, I delete all parts of
> the patch which are created because of trailing spaces.

I use a patch management system (StGIT) to automate the patch
maintenance, sending, updating etc. and I have tens of patches. It's a
bit more difficult to edit each patch manually.

> Anyway, I would like to add an option. So, the user can decide whether
> to always get trailing spaces cut off at saving time or on newline.

This sounds good.

> The
> problem is, sometimes you edit files but don't insert a newline, so the
> trailing spaces still exist. If you think of this and add and remove
> the newline to manually invoke the function, all is fine. But I guess
> there are some people like me, who probably won't think of it ;-).

I don't really care about trailing spaces on a line I edit, they can
stay. As I said in a different e-mail, I do not want to create new
trailing spaces. The current newline behaviour is to leave the
indentation spaces on empty lines. The simplest fix was the one I sent
(and with which I got used from emacs).

-- 
Catalin