Re: CVS Update@linux-mips.org: linux

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:03:16PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> >  It doesn't wipe other rubbish like spaces followed by tabs, though -- 
> > e.g. ones that would match "^ \t".  Perhaps `indent' could help with them, 
> > but I trust my fingers and eyes instead. ;-)
> 
> Of course it does:
> 
> [ralf@box ~]$ echo -ne '  \t\t' | perl -pi -e 's/[ \t]+$//' | od -x
> 0000000
> [ralf@box ~]$

Maciej meant spaces followed by tabs that do not end a line, e.g.

| tux$ echo -ne '  \t\tx' | perl -pi -e 's/[ \t]+$//' | od -x
| 0000000 2020 0909 0078
| 0000005

These are a bit more difficult to auto-remove, since simply removing them may
change indentation (modulo 8).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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