How do you remove trailing spaces in all files except Markdown?

Question

In Visual Studio Code the setting

"files.trimTrailingWhitespace": true

removes trailing white space when files are saved, or Shift + Alt + F is used to format a file, but this breaks Markdown formatting.

How do you selectively turn off white space trimming for Markdown?

score 23 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 20 '18 at 16:31

23

Add this line to your settings.json file.

"[markdown]": {
    "files.trimTrailingWhitespace": false
}

answered Aug 20 '18 at 16:31

GollyJer

How can I additionally turn it off for `text (.txt)` and `csv` files? – Superdooperhero Dec 28 '19 at 18:07
1

`ctl-k m` to bring up the language mode selector. That is the list of language specific settings you can apply. For text it looks like `[plaintext]`. [This could be helpful to set csv files to behave like plain text files](https://stackoverflow.com/a/36789145/25197). – GollyJer Dec 30 '19 at 20:04
Thanks! CSV does not seem to be in the list though. – Superdooperhero Dec 30 '19 at 20:12
1

Yeah. Use the link provided in my last comment to make csv format like text. – GollyJer Dec 30 '19 at 21:02

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 23 '20 at 23:19

3

You can use EditorConfig by adding .editorconfig at the root of your project:

[!markdown]
trim_trailing_whitespace: false

Or as GollyJer suggested, add this code snippet in the settings.json file:

"[markdown]": {
    "files.trimTrailingWhitespace": false
}

edited Aug 23 '20 at 23:19

Peter Mortensen

answered Aug 21 '18 at 12:05

Yashu Mittal

5

that does not look like the right .editorconfig syntax. `[*.md] trim_trailing_whitespace=false` – Chris Guzak Jan 05 '19 at 18:01

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 26 '20 at 20:27

0

Do Ctrl-K s. This will "Save without formatting", which also means, without trimming trailing whitespace in the file you're editing

answered Dec 26 '20 at 20:27

kolypto

1

This is really only a temporary workaround, not an answer. – connexo Jul 01 '21 at 09:03

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