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Remove trailing white spaces on all lines [message #656480]

Fri, 25 February 2011 20:30

Laurence Gonsalves

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Registered: February 2011

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When I enable "Remove trailing white spaces on all lines" in Preferences / Java / Code Style / Clean Up it doesn't seem to do anything. Trailing spaces, whether on an "empty" line or not, are not being removed.

What could I be doing wrong?

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Re: Remove trailing white spaces on all lines [message #656489 is a reply to message #656480]

Fri, 25 February 2011 21:13

Russell Bateman

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Provo, Utah, USA

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On 25-Feb-11 13:30, Laurence Gonsalves wrote:
> When I enable "Remove trailing white spaces on all lines" in Preferences
> / Java / Code Style / Clean Up it doesn't seem to do anything. Trailing
> spaces, whether on an "empty" line or not, are not being removed.
>
> What could I be doing wrong?

I don't use that, but I think you have to select a block of source text
and choose Source -> Format for that to work.

If you just want to have this done each time, for example, you save your
file, then use Andrei Loskutov's plug-in, AnyEdit.

http://andrei.gmxhome.de/anyedit/

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Re: Remove trailing white spaces on all lines [message #656493 is a reply to message #656480]

Fri, 25 February 2011 22:07

Laurence Gonsalves

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Registered: February 2011

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Thanks. I hadn't realized that these options aren't automatic on save. I'll try AnyEdit.

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Re: Remove trailing white spaces on all lines [message #656495 is a reply to message #656493]

Fri, 25 February 2011 22:11

Ed Merks

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Registered: July 2009

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Laurence,

Note that there are "Java->Editor->Save Actions" preferences you can
enable so this, i.e., so arbitrary cleanup will be done when saving.

Laurence Gonsalves wrote:
> Thanks. I hadn't realized that these options aren't automatic on save.
> I'll try AnyEdit.

Ed Merks
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