On 2015-01-13 21:46, John Andersen wrote:
On 01/13/2015 05:13 AM, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
If you think that is hard to find try looking for "extra" white space at the end of a line in a config file. New job, first time working with SCO and the box had an issue auto-mounting an nfs filesystem. After two months I stumbled accross the extra spaces, removed them all was well afterward. Sure made the boss and the admin of the Novell box happy.
I've always appreciated editors that have an option to show white-space "characters".
But that the parser of the config file, knowing how difficult is to find white space at the end of the line, has problems, may be also a bug.
Its amazing to me that Kate does not support this, given that there are more than a few situations where white space matters in the linux world.
On some editors you can see them by selecting several lines. They highlight till the actual endofline char, but others highlight the entire line (like kate), so they are not useful for this. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)