[TxMt] saving without trailing spaces and tabs...

[Sean Schertell]

Seems like a lot of work for such a basic code editing function :-(

Are there any plans to add this command natively in a future release?

Sean



On Mar 22, 2006, at 7:06 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 21/3/2006, at 17:48, Dan Ridley wrote:
>
>> If you really want to get it into one command, you can use this:
>>
>> perl -pe 's/[\t ]+$//g' > "$TM_FILEPATH" && cat "$TM_FILEPATH"
>>
>>  (Input: Entire Document
>>   Output: Replace Document)
>>
>> There are two problems with this, though:
>>
>>  * TextMate will not know that you've overwritten the file, so  
>> while the file contents on disk will match the file contents in  
>> TextMate, you'll still get the "unsaved" bullet on your tab, and  
>> will be prompted to save on close.
>>  * You'll be returned to the beginning of the current line when  
>> you run it.
>
> If you set the command to save before, it will think the file is up- 
> to-date (even though the command makes a second save), and if you  
> set the output to discard, you should get rid of the latter problem  
> (then also remove the » && cat "$TM_FILEPATH"«).
>
> It does however not handle the case where the file is untitled.
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> Just FYI (meant for the list) I am currently (amongst other)  
> looking into extending commands to be used in various (callback)  
> events, and directly on files (from the file browser). So long-term  
> the way to strip trailing spaces (and similar) will be a method  
> very similar to this (but with a slightly extended infrastructure  
> to make it more graceful).
>
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