Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Add information about trailing whitespace.

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Thu Jun 28 2007 - 02:52:17 EST



On Jun 28 2007 06:29, dave young wrote:
>
> IMHO, another cause of trailing whitespace is human error, for
> example long lines breaking will easy to cause the first line with one
> traling whitespace (original space between the last two words).

Most common errors (to me) are:

- hit return+tab too quickly that it interchanges, hence producing
the unwanted \t\n
- hit return+return to start a new paragraph of code;
the intermediate line remains indented if autoindent is on.


Jan
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