> On 08/05/2011 12:02 PM, Ron wrote: > > It's not only eye candy, it's also a practical thing. > > If you have a bigger public project under svn, you don't want that the > > removal of one isolated space character on a empty line somewhere > > generates a commit change. > > > > So I remove them all in my projects while writing code. > > > > Regards, > > Ron_2nd. > > > > 'Pretty' is in the eye of the beholder. I write my code so it is easy to > > read and easy see the structure of the code, spaces and empty lines are > > therefore used extensively. Since the compiled code is not affected by > > them what's the problem? > > Ideally there would be a menu rather than a one-size-fits-all command > (as there currently is). These options could be checked or unchecked as > the user sees fit. > > I'm a formatting Nazi. A space at the end of a line, or on an "empty" > line, or anything that doesn't fit a rigid set of formatting standards, > drives me crazy to no end. While I too carefully format my code as I > write it, to give you an example of this feature's usefulness, I > recently updated 20 OpenGL gb2 projects (which I didn't write) to gb3. I > practically set my keyboard on fire and gave myself carpal tunnel > syndrome just deleting spaces and removing unnecessary empty lines. All > I can say is thank God the projects weren't longer. > > Also, just to clear things up, no one's suggesting deleting empty lines > or spaces used in indentation. Just trailing spaces and spaces on empty > lines, which no one in their right mind would purposely put in their > code as they serve no purpose. An option to remove consecutive empty > lines would be nice though (three breaks/CR's would become two). > > Someone earlier mentioned that hitting Enter in the middle of a comment > line should automatically insert a comment character at the beginning of > the line being brought down. I just had that happen to me last night > (normally I don't split comments across multiple lines), and it sounds > like a good idea. He was right that having to go through the comment and > correct the case and spacing was a PITA. Here's an example: > > ' Camera is always exactly in the middle of the render window, so the > upper-left corner of the center tile (not yet offset) > > ' Camera is always exactly in the middle of the render window, > so the Upper - Left corner Of the center tile(Not yet offset)
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