I work on a project (mostly C/C++) where the builds will fail if code is committed with trailing spaces on any line in most source files. The exception are some 3rd party libraries, which unfortunately are less strict and have trailing spaces in their sources. So, it is not possible to use the "Strip all trailing spaces" file option, but must settle for "Strip trailing spaces only from modified lines" instead.
After upgrading to 27.0, SlickEdit somehow has introduced trailing spaces in doxygen/javadoc style comments a number of times. It seems to be a bit of a heisenbug, though, as it isn't always reproducible. However, here is a scenario that seems to work reliably:
1.
svn cat https://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk/include/iprt/http.h > /tmp/http-strip-spaces-issue.h2.
vs +new -sc /tmp/slickcfg-1 /tmp/http-strip-spaces-issue.h3. Opening
Document -> C/C++ Options, go the the
File Options and change the stripping options to from "Default" to "Strip trailing spaces only from modified lines".
4. Place the cursor at the end of line 63 (comment line saying
Creates a HTTP client instance.).
5. Hit the
return (or
enter) key.
6. The cursor is now standing in column 4 on the new line 64, with an asterisk in column 2.
7. Save (
Ctrl-S)
The result here is always that line 63 now has an extra space at the end and line 64 has two trailing spaces. Seems there is more than just ignoring the stripping-on-save options going on here.
-bird
