when you save a file. It's just an OCD trait that for code files, I only want what needs to be in there.
Assuming it's always been done, it makes code diffs easier, takes up less space, etc, etc. Historical arguments, I'm sure people will argue. Diff tools exist that ignore differences in whitespace. While it's entirely true, sometimes I've only had rudimentary tools like windows file compare (fc). Space on disk for code files hasn't been an issue for eons but for the want of a nail[1], the kingdom was lost.
Today, a small measure of happiness entered my life when I found the posting by Dyaus at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/82971/how-to-automatically-remove-trailing-whitespace-in-visual-studio-2008/83043 They had a macro that runs after save to strip trailing whitespace and it works like a champ thus far. Although the question was for VS 2008, I'm running it on 2005 without an issue. Reproduced in case the link goes dead
' Add the following into the EnvironmentEvents Module for your macros Private saved As Boolean = False Private Sub DocumentEvents_DocumentSaved(ByVal document As EnvDTE.Document) _ Handles DocumentEvents.DocumentSaved If Not saved Then Try DTE.Find.FindReplace(vsFindAction.vsFindActionReplaceAll, _ "\t", _ vsFindOptions.vsFindOptionsRegularExpression, _ " ", _ vsFindTarget.vsFindTargetCurrentDocument, , , _ vsFindResultsLocation.vsFindResultsNone) ' Remove all the trailing whitespaces. DTE.Find.FindReplace(vsFindAction.vsFindActionReplaceAll, _ ":Zs+$", _ vsFindOptions.vsFindOptionsRegularExpression, _ String.Empty, _ vsFindTarget.vsFindTargetCurrentDocument, , , _ vsFindResultsLocation.vsFindResultsNone) saved = True document.Save() Catch ex As Exception MsgBox(ex.Message, MsgBoxStyle.OkOnly, "Trim White Space exception") End Try Else saved = False End If End Sub
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