Re: rectangular region kill saves leading whitespaces

[Garreau\, Alexandre]

Le 30/10/2018 à 07h06, Kaushal Modi a écrit :
>> It copies created leading whitespaces at each line shorter than the
>> longest one.
>
> I am assuming that you mean the trailing (towards the end of line) space.

Yes! sorry.

>> It is annoying to me: is it intended to be as it is, is it a bug, or a
>> non-existing-yet feature?
>
> I see that copying of whitespace as a feature, as I have needed that many
> times. It's really helpful when you are pasting a rectangle block of text
> in between some other text.

I don’t understand clearly and concretely what do you mean as an
example.

> Also, as the name says, it copies a "reactangle" of text. Without the
> whitespace, the block won't be a rectangle.

I understand: that’s why I wasn’t sure.  Initially when discovering
rectangular selection I believed this did must be a feature.

> Look into delete-trailing-whitespace[0] function, which you can even add to
> the after-save-hook.

Okay so that’s the intended workaround…

However I find it unclean: most of times it should do, but if there
really were trailing whitespaces initially, it will either add some to
them, or remove them all.  Isn’t there a way to properly save the end of
lines?

That might be because you use rectangular selection so that to simply
filter out lines ends and beginning before and past a certain line
column (I often do that to get rid of some indentation, or “> ” line
prefixes, as it is faster than normal (non-rectangular) copy/pasting,
then rectangularely kill the ends/beginnings).