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Remove trailing whitespace on saving files [message #1844325]

Thu, 09 September 2021 08:51

Joaquim Homrighausen is currently offline

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Many editors and IDEs have the option to remove trailing whitespace from lines upon saving the file. I cannot find any such option in Eclipse. Is this not possible?

-joho

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Re: Remove trailing whitespace on saving files [message #1844334 is a reply to message #1844325]

Thu, 09 September 2021 16:17

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Window -> Preferences... -> Java -> Editor -> Save Actions -> Configure... -> Code Organization -> Remove trailing whitespace -> All lines

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Re: Remove trailing whitespace on saving files [message #1844339 is a reply to message #1844334]

Thu, 09 September 2021 20:12

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Thank you.

But there's no option to do this for all types of files?

(I'm using this mostly for PHP/CSS/JS/HTML, and Python.)

-joho

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Re: Remove trailing whitespace on saving files [message #1844352 is a reply to message #1844339]

Fri, 10 September 2021 12:20

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Not that I know of, no.

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