[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57860] GUI editor should offer a setting to remove trailing whitespace when saving

[Mike Miller]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57860>

                 Summary: GUI editor should offer a setting to remove trailing
whitespace when saving
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mtmiller
            Submitted on: Wed 19 Feb 2020 12:41:32 PM PST
                Category: GUI
                Severity: 1 - Wish
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: dev
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

Many programming editors offer a command or a setting to automatically remove
all trailing whitespace at the ends of lines in a file when the file is
saved.

I think the Octave GUI editor should offer such a setting in the Editor
preferences. When enabled, all lines will be automatically filtered to trim
trailing spaces and tabs (and any other non-ASCII space-like characters?).

This would help new contributors edit and write m-file functions for
submission to Octave, since this is part of our coding style guide.




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