From: Johna <nnn4431@mailc.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how do you strip leading white spaces in c-mode or similar?
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:29:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1183685346.183441.17470@n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uabuaspvb.fsf@gmail.com>
On Jul 5, 1:48 pm, Peter Lee <pete.a....@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Johna writes:
>
> > Basically I am frustrated with the default indentation in c-mode (or
> > similar modes) because it inserts unnecessary white space(s) on empty
> > lines. I want all empty lines to contain nothing but '\n'. Instead they
> > contain "\n\t" or "\n ".
>
> If you are only concerned about the extraneous spaces being persisted you could:
>
> insert
>
> (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace t t)
>
> into your mode-hook... which will strip them on each save.
Sorry I am too dumb to do that.
Can you post a more complete example?
I added the above line to the end of my .emacs file, restarted emacs
but it had no effect.
The white space usually is added when I press TAB and then ENTER
for those who wonder where it comes from.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-06 1:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-05 0:34 how do you strip leading white spaces in c-mode or similar? Johna
2007-07-05 8:49 ` brianjiang
2007-07-05 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-05 17:48 ` Peter Lee
2007-07-06 1:29 ` Johna [this message]
2007-07-06 10:35 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-07-06 12:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-06 12:48 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2007-07-06 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-08 9:16 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2007-07-06 12:41 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
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