Joerg Heinicke wrote: > The result of this thread: let's care only about white spaces. > > It's my opinion too. But the editor should do this automatically, not by > running a task by hand.
Agreed. I am adding it to my requirements list, in the search for a new editor. > IDEA does it pretty good: Removes trailing > spaces when saving a file, replaces existing tabs with spaces on save, > when using the key TAB it adds spaces to the file. But unfortunately > IDEA is not for free. Ah, others keep mentioning IDEA too. > The editors I use at the moment are Eclipse and jEdit. Both can insert > spaces instead of TAB when using the key. But both do not handle the > other two things. And even worse for XML with Eclipse and SunBow: it > does not even handle the TAB => spaces issue. > > Even if this leads not to additional results my conclusion: > Having the right tools we would not have such problems. That is right. However we cannot expect everyone to have them. So, from time-to-time perhaps one of us can do a "whitespace cleanup" of our cvs. --David
