Automatically remove trailing spaces after pressing Enter when autosave is enabled

[dillonfagan]

Feature request: Like Visual Studio, it would be awesome if Code could satisfy my OCD by clearing spacing (and tabs) from empty lines, i.e. lines with no text in them. The company I work for has made it part of their coding standards that blank lines should be completely blank, including any excess spacing.

[arshubham]

Enable the plugin Strip trailing whitespace from the preferences dialog. It does exactly that.

[dillonfagan]

Ah now I feel slightly foolish... except am I right that this only works when manually saving? I'd like for trailing spaces to be stripped in real-time if that's possible.

[arshubham]

yeah you are right. Title can me made a little clearer. Anyway someone needs to just call it on enter key press event instead of save event and submit a new plugin. Is this how vscode handles it? Does it remove the whitespaces from whole file or just the current line?

[dillonfagan]

I think as you type, Visual Studio (not sure about VS Code) removes trailing spaces from the current line after hitting enter/return.

[jeremypw]

If stripping is enabled for automatic save then it should not be applied to the line being typed.

[jeremypw]

This could be annoying as I often temporarily move away from the current line which might contain space (tabs) which I do not want removed at that point as I want to paste something afterwards. You can force stripping just by pressing <Ctrl>S if you want. You should always check for trailing space before committing anyway using the linter io.elementary.vala-lint

[jeremypw]

I must admit I find it irritating to have to manually save in order to remove extraneous white space even when autosave is enabled.