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Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

chmurph2 — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:57:58 -0000

Try adding -text.html.markdown to the macro's Scope Selector. After that, if you want to clean up whitespace in markdown files manually, call TextMate's "Remove Trailing Spaces in Document" command.

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

Matt Robinson — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:44:38 -0000

Disabling it for Markdown is just fine (that's actually what I meant, but I used a longer vaguer word, like a pillock). How would you disable it just for markdown?

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

chmurph2 — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:07:44 -0000

Hi Matt,

No, not that I'm aware of with TextMate. You can completely disable it for Markdown, though, but then you have to clean up unwanted whitespace manually.

HTH,
Chris

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

Matt Robinson — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 06:29:21 -0000

Is there any way to make this selective? Mostly because Markdown uses trailing whitespace to indicate a line-break.

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

Hi — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:27:56 -0000

Perfect

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

Bseanvt — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:14:10 -0000

although it doesn't save the document :( just strips the whitespace

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

Bseanvt — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:44:31 -0000

You can achieve the same thing by adding a new command that replaces the entire document. Something like...
#!/usr/bin/ruby
STDIN.read.each_line do |line|
puts line.rstrip
end

Full example here
https://gist.github.com/180...

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

Graham Scott Christensen — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:09:31 -0000

One interesting thing to note on the tabs vs. spaces thing is that an automatic conversion will break Makefiles, which require you use tabs.

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

Aaron Tate — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:42:58 -0000

Ah, good. This was so easy to do in Textpad on Windows. Thank you.

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

chmurph2 — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:55:13 -0000

Thanks!

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

Stan Schwertly — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:05:08 -0000

This is excellent! I've been waging the war against whitespace for quite some time now! Thanks :)!

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

chmurph2 — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:49:44 -0000

Hi Jeremy,

I've added "-text.html.markdown -text" to my macro's Scope Selector for the
same reasons. Whenever I'm dealing with plain text and I want whitespace
cleaned up, I just manually call TextMate's "Remove Trailing Spaces in
Document" command.

-Chris

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

jlecour — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:15:35 -0000

I'm all for this. I compulsively remove trailing whitespaces in my source code. I've had this "on save" hook for some time, but I've had issues with TSV (tab separated values) files, where a trailing tab means that the last column is empty. Removing those tabs corrupt the file.

I didn't try to use a "text.source" in TextMate yet. It seems like a good idea.

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

chmurph2 — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:01:46 -0000

Thanks Tony. And... yes, exactly.

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

tony4d — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:40:39 -0000

Good shit, thank you for this. The trick here was creating a command that simply does a save, then using that in a macro. Endless possibilities for do "stuff" on save.

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

chmurph2 — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:22:51 -0000

You're welcome.

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

Alec — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:41:15 -0000

I was doing this manually all the time when I realized there had to be a better way and started Googling... And here it is! Thank you!

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

chmurph2 — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:22:07 -0000

You're welcome. Glad it helped.

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

Indy — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:27:04 -0000

I'm a little late to the party, but thanks a lot for this. I've been wanting to do this forever and never got around to do it this simply.

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

Tom — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:05:57 -0000

Amen. This is one of the first things I did after switching to TextMate years ago.

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

chmurph2 — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:44:47 -0000

A nice alternative approach. Thanks!

-Chris

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

László Bácsi — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:46:57 -0000

I use the same kind of solution in TextMate but with a custom command to add newline before EOF additionally to removing trailing whitespace. The command looks like this. (Mind the escaped verbatim newline in the command)

sed -E -e 's/[ ]+$//' -e '$ s/^(.*)$[^\n]/\1\
/'

create this with save: nothing, input: entire document, output: replace document, and use it in your macro instead of the builtin "Remove Trailing Spaces" command.

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

László Bácsi — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:41:01 -0000

That's somewhat easy to fix. Specify a 'text.source' scope for the macro. That way the shortcut will only work in source documents and Cmd-S will do the default in other documents.

You could specify further scopes if you'd like to have this feature in other files (e.g. haml)

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

chmurph2 — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:43:25 -0000

Nice! And thanks for the reference.

-Chris

Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

Glenn Roberts — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:38:11 -0000

I've bundled this macro up (including Convert Tabs to Spaces) for Textmate @ http://github.com/glennr/ub...

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