Re: [RFC] whitespace.el
skip(a)pobox.com wrote:
Just an FYI (haven't posted this to python-dev yet), my problems
with
dangling whitespace are caused by hitting RET or LF
(py-newline-and-indent) which indents according to the current
environment, then moving away from that indentation using a command
python-mode doesn't know about (e.g. previous-line), so it doesn't
have the opportunity to delete the whitespace. The whitespace module
might help here, though I've never used it. I think the best place for
it would be as a write-file-hook
That's the way I use it. There's a machinery to do exactly that in it
already.
though I worry about it not being aware of Python's
triple-quoted
strings which can extend over multiple lines and which might
presumably contain legitimate trailing whitespace.
Gosh:-/ My current changes are: 1/ being able to activate whitespace
cleanup on a per file basis, as well as on a per-mode basis (which is
the only possibility in the current version), and 2/ being able to
select exactly which ones of the 5 kinds of cleanup you want to activate
according to the file / mode you're editing.
Activating trailing whitespace cleanup differently at different places
in the same file/buffer is not going to be trivial. Actually, I don't
think that's whitespace's job anyway.
This sounds to me like a job for mmm-mode. You would have a special
major-mode for editing your triple-quoted strings, and trigger
whitespace cleanup differently according to this, and the other major
modes in your buffer.
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