Hi all,
Quite a big threat this question generated (and that for some spaces) :-)
I've adapted my vimrc and check ralfs script when creating patches.
Thanks for all the feedback,
Niels Sterrenburg
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Ralf Baechle wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:03:16PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>> > It doesn't wipe other rubbish like spaces followed by tabs, though --
>> > e.g. ones that would match "^ \t". Perhaps `indent' could help with
>> them,
>> > but I trust my fingers and eyes instead. ;-)
>>
>> Of course it does:
>>
>> [ralf@box ~]$ echo -ne ' \t\t' | perl -pi -e 's/[ \t]+$//' | od -x
>> 0000000
>> [ralf@box ~]$
>
> Maciej meant spaces followed by tabs that do not end a line, e.g.
>
> | tux$ echo -ne ' \t\tx' | perl -pi -e 's/[ \t]+$//' | od -x
> | 0000000 2020 0909 0078
> | 0000005
>
> These are a bit more difficult to auto-remove, since simply removing them
> may
> change indentation (modulo 8).
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
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