Thanks, Jay and Cos! I'll look at the git commit and git diff options :) On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 2:51 AM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> I stopped using emacs for my Java/Groovy code ever since IntellijIDEA came > around, so can't give you an expert advice. IDEA has an option to remove > the > trailing spaces only for modified lines. This way you will avoid messing up > anything you haven't touched. > > You also can do > git diff --check > to see if any whitespace changes were introduced. > > Cos > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 04:50PM, RJ Nowling wrote: > > Additional followup: > > > > 1) Automatically removing trailing white space caused problems with > editing > > build.gradle because of the ASCII art :) > > > > 2) To prevent emacs from mixing tabs and spaces, the following can be > added > > to .emacs: > > > > (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) > > > > More tips appreciated, though! > > > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 4:42 PM, RJ Nowling <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I keep introducing trailing whitespace into patches without meaning to, > > > and I'd like to know what other people do to prevent this. > > > > > > In my emacs file, I put > > > > > > (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace) > > > > > > and I enabled a similar option in Eclipse. > > > > > > What do others do? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > RJ > > > >
