Re: [PATCH] Trim trailing whitespace in vim and emacs

On 06/05/2018 05:33 PM, Andrew Gierth wrote:
>>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Woodcraft <matthew(at)woodcraft(dot)me(dot)uk> writes:
> Matthew> A few days ago there was a suggestion on this list to add a
> Matthew> .editorconfig file specifying tab width:
> Matthew> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/87efhuz9be.fsf%40news-spur.riddles.org.uk
>
> Matthew> The .editorconfig format also supports a
> Matthew> trim_trailing_whitespace option (see https://editorconfig.org/
> Matthew> ).
>
> Yes. I was actually planning to ask if any .editorconfig users (of which
> I'm not one - my only use for it is to improve display output on github)
> would like to contribute the most useful content for such a file.
>

I'm not one either (yet!) but it seems to me like something worth doing.
It seems to support an impressively large number of editors and display
mechanisms, and adding a single small file to support it doesn't seem
onerous.

cheers

andrew

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