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Re: Temporarily disable a write hook?
From: |
Yuri Khan |
Subject: |
Re: Temporarily disable a write hook? |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 22:11:00 +0700 |
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:03 PM, Skip Montanaro
<skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
> (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace)
>
> Well, I got burned by this. I was editing a CSV file in which one cell
> in the last column of a row ended with a space. It was, unfortunately,
> a regular expression, so the space was significant.
Are you in full control of how this CSV file is edited?
If you are, you could double-quote the cell that has the significant
trailing space. (Of course this assumes a specification-compliant
parser.)
On the other hand, if that CSV file is intermediate data subject to
import/export, that won’t help.