bugGNU nano - Bugs: bug #46361, Ctrl+J keeps the trailing space(s)

 
 

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bug #46361: Ctrl+J keeps the trailing space(s)

Submitter:  Federico Bruni <fedelibre>
Submitted:  Mon 02 Nov 2015 07:32:31 AM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  Fixed
Assigned to:  astyanax Open/Closed:  Closed

Fri 26 Feb 2016 09:14:47 AM UTC, comment #3: 

There's no stepping done.  :)

I will probably start using 'justifytrim' myself.  Losing a double space now and then when rejustifying things, I can probably live with -- having those glaring red things (in my default syntax) at the end of lines gone will have more weight.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Thu 25 Feb 2016 09:58:00 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Not to step on Benno's very correct statement here (as we'd never make nano become incompatible with Pico by default), but I have been bitten by this particular circumstance editing repeatedly in the last couple months. I implemented this as an option for .nanorc only, called justifytrim.  It went in with nano 2.5.3.

Chris Allegretta <astyanax>
Group administrator
Mon 02 Nov 2015 08:35:38 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks for reporting.  Yes, I agree that this looks ugly when trailing whitespace is highlighted.  But...

Two things:  1) Pico does this too, and nano copies Pico as closely as possible.  2) If a line ends in more than one space, and we delete all of them, how then can nano restore these multiple spaces when the paragraph is modified afterward and then reflowed again with ^J?

So... we won't change this.

Of course it would be possible to add an option like --trim-trailing-whitespace, which would be useful almost always, but I haven't yet heard anyone else make this suggestion.  And then the question arises: when should it trim?  When the cursor leaves the line?  Whenever the file is saved?  ...  Problems.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Mon 02 Nov 2015 07:32:31 AM UTC, original submission:  

I hit Ctrl+J to reflow the text (actual breaks, not wraps), but the space(s) before the word which goes to the next line is not deleted. I noticed this clearly thanks to 'git diff'.

I'm using Nano 2.4.2 from fedora 23.

Federico Bruni <fedelibre>

 

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    2016-02-25 astyanax StatusWont Fix Fixed
        Assigned toNone astyanax
    2015-11-02 bens StatusNone Wont Fix

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