How do I actually trim trailing whitespace?

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Jared Beck
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I have tried the following:


1. "Strip trailing spaces on Save" = "All" and "Allow placement of caret after end of line" off.

- Doesn't work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mChERGVl9Xo&feature=youtu.be

2. "Strip trailing spaces on Save" = "All" and "Allow placement of caret after end of line" on.

- Doesn't work, same as video above

3. Recording a macro to find `[ ]+$` and replace all

- Macro seems to use "replace" instead of "replace all", or maybe it didn't record that I selected "regex" checkbox

4. Configuring an "external tool" `sed -i '' -E 's/[ ]+$//g' $FilePath$`

- My sed command works on command line, fails in rubymine with:


```

/usr/bin/sed -i '' -E 's/[ ]+$//g' /Users/jared/redacted/README.md
sed: 1: "'s/[": invalid command code '

```


Maybe rubymine is putting double quotes around the pattern parameter.


I've spent over an hour trying to get this simple feature to work, so please tell me there's a way to actually strip trailing whitespace in rubymine.



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Hi,

for me both #1 and #2 works, to verify this I'd suggest to turn "show whitespace" option on (Settings|Editor|General|Appearance).
Also the problem can be caused by one of installed plugins.  I'm using markdown plugin from Jetbrains and everything works ok.

Hope this help, Oleg.

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An extension indeed might cause a problem. I had to configure Vim Emulator Ctrl+S mapping in Rider to be handled by IDE instead of the extension.

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The problem I'm having is that PyCharm does not remove trailing spaces inside a string. For example, I'll represent the trailing spaces with a ! :

!    
def foo():
  pass

Here PyCharm removes the empty space above the def

def foo():
  a = '''
some text!!
'''

Here PyCharm does not remove the spaces after 'some text'

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Sergey Karpov
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Hey Francisco,

Why would PyCharm remove it?
Many people add spaces to the string intentionally and don't want them to be removed by IDE.

Consider the following example:

name = input('My name is: ')

Without additional space after the column it wouldn't look very nice to the user:

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Hi Serguey, the problem only happens with multi-line strings. For example:

text = '''
foo   
'''


If there are trailing spaces after foo, pyflakes will complain about trailing spaces

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Sergey Karpov
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I think it's covered by the following feature request https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-23871

Please upvote and feel free to leave comments.

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Yes, I already voted for it. Although I think it's a bug, considering pyflakes sees this as an error.

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