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On 11/11/2016 05:15 PM, Eric Herman via perl5-porters wrote: > > On 11-11-16 16:46, Andy Lester wrote: > >> I’d also hope that a mass tabs-to-space conversion program would also >> trim off trailing whitespace from each line. > > Can be done with sed, or perhaps it's a job for GNU Indent or similar? > If so, it may be useful to supply the indent params. Some other > projects do this: > > * https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/scripts/Lindent > > * https://github.com/dgryski/libchash/blob/master/Makefile#L75 > >> We also need to be aware of code in the tree that is autogenerated with >> tabs, like charclass_invlists.h. > > However, for the perl codebase, an indent script should almost > certainly not be mass-applied. Yet, if we could write one which > describes the "preferred" style, this alone would be useful for > guidance and could be referenced in the docs. > This all has been discussed before, and the decision was made that it would be a bad idea to do this globally, and that is why the current incremental approach was decided uponThread Previous