Re: how do you strip leading white spaces in c-mode or similar?

[Tassilo Horn]

Johna <nnn4431@mailc.net> writes:

Hi Johna,

>> 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?

That is complete.

> I added the above line to the end of my .emacs file, restarted emacs
> but it had no effect.

That's all what is needed. As soon as you save the file, all trailing
whitespaces will be deleted.

> The white space usually is added when I press TAB and then ENTER
> for those who wonder where it comes from.

That's strange, anyway. Here, my emacs (22.1) removes trailing
whitespaces in the current line as soon as I go to the next line...

Bye,
Tassilo
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