Prevent trailing whitespace?
PyCharm is generally pretty good about not leaving trailing whiltespace behind, but I do notice that every once in a while I end up with a line containing only whitespace. Can this be prevented?
Thanks,
-Roberto.
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Thanks for the response. I have the whitespace setting to modified lines only, but I still get whitespace under the following condition.
The line that the cursor is on will save a trailing whitespace; when there is text on the line or even if it's an empty line. For example, say you had the following function:
def whitespace test(request):
return HttpResponse('hello')
Then you decided to add "user = request.user" and leave a blank line between your variable definitions and the return statement to end up with:
def whitespace test(request):
user = request.user
return HttpResponse('hello')
Now the cursor is blinking between the "u" in user and "r" in return:
Hit save, then run "git diff" on the command line and you'll see:
This scenario will continue happening and if I go elsewhere in the code and resave. The trailing whitespace above will persist even though it's on a "modified line". I'm interpreting a "modified" line to be content that shows up as changed when running "git diff". As mentioned, my settings are configured to strip whitespace on modified lines.
Thanks,
-Roberto.
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