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Re: [p5p] pod bugs

From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>
To: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
cc: Paul.Moore@uk.origin-it.com, Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>, "'Tom Christiansen'" <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>, perl5-porters@perl.org
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:22:34 -0800
Message-Id: <200001261922.LAA08075@maul.activestate.com>

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:11:52 GMT, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>I was going to suggest that too. I happen to use an editor (which I wrote
>so I have no one to blame but myself) which if you "click" beyond the end
>of a line extends the line to that point with white space. 
>This was deliberate as it makes it more intuitive to me. BUT it has 
>side effect that it is too easy to add invisible spaces at the end of lines.

Perhaps it should strip trailing whitespace when it saves the file?

>Note too that $/ = '' already does semi-magical things when "\n" is CRLF
>rather than just LF - i.e. it already ignores \r whitespace

I doesn't, actually.  We've been saying that it should, though.


Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com

References to:: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>

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