I just found the wonderful command Ctrl+I in Eclipse 3.2. A must to correct 
indentation and transform tabs to spaces after having
set like indicated below.

Is somebody aware of a command/tool in Eclipse (or even off) able to get rid of 
useless spaces and tabs at end of lines ?

Thanks

Jacques

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 10:24 AM
Subject: Spaces for tabs


> Hi all,
>
> Willing to ease this redundant Spaces for Tabs format problem here is a text 
> I propose to put in
> http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Contributors+Best+Practices
>
> mixing informations from
> http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/wiki/index.php?title=Getting_Started#Configure_Your_Development_Environment
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GMOxDEV/Developing+Geronimo+in+Eclipse
> http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/ofbiz_eclipse.php
> here are some updated help to allow using spaces in place of tabs in source 
> files in Eclipse 3.
>
> <<
> We don't want tab characters in text files in SVN, because different editors 
> and tools interpret tabs differently. All indentation
> should be done purely with spaces.
> To change tabs to spaces in Eclipse, change these preferences in Window -> 
> Preferences ->
>     1. Java -> Code Style -> Code Formatter -> Show... -> Java Conventions 
> [built-in] -> Indentation, select Tab policy as "space
> only". Enter a new name for this profile and click "OK".
>     2. Java -> Editor -> Typing, and check "Insert spaces for tab".
>     3. Ant -> Editor -> Formatter, and uncheck "Use tab character instead of 
> spaces".
>     4. If you installed Colorer, Colorer Library Editor -> Uses spaces 
> instead of tabs.
>     5. If you installed XML Buddy, XMLBuddy -> Formatting -> Uses spaces 
> instead of tabs.
>     6. Unfortunaltely neither of the 2 main FreeMarker pluggin have similar 
> functionnality yet. So for FTL files you have to do
that
> manually with an external editor.
> >>
>
> For point 6 I'm not sure if there is not a better way to do that in Eclipse 
> 3, any idea ?
>
> If some have time and experience maybe we could do the same thing for at 
> least NetBeans ?
>
> BTW,  it seems that groups.csail.mit.edu has a way to avoid finding tabs in 
> source files : "Our Subversion repository will
actually
> reject commits that include tabs in text files, so you'd better fix this now, 
> or face pain later.". Could that possible in Apache
> SVN ?
>
> Jacques

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