doc: strip trailing whitespace#9620
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#9611 indicated that trailing whitespace had crept into the docs. |
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Ugh. See https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/.editorconfig#L12-L13 -- the problem is, for whatever silly reason, that this actually means something in markdown. I think it makes a newline break, but I forget. FWIW I find that incredibly silly and think we should ignore that bit of markdown. |
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Ugh, indeed. I will review the docs visually for every change here to ensure that the whitespace was semantic, not accidental. |
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+1 for dropping that option. I was initially for it, but I'm not aware that anyone really uses it. There's always |
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@Fishrock123 I'm as hazy on Markdown as everyone else, but I think the newline is only for two spaces at the end of the line. I don't think a single space at the end of a file achieves anything. |
PR-URL: nodejs#9620 Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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markdown had a dispensation because 2 or more trailing spaces triggers a new paragraph. There are no examples of that usage in Node, all trailing whitespace found were mistakes, and the dispensation is now removed. See: nodejs#9620
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I manually reviewed this, no trailing whitespace was semantic, and would have to have been 2 or more spaces to be semantic, thanks @gib for the reference. I PRed a removal of the .editorconfig section that you pointed out, @Fishrock123: #9676 |
markdown had a dispensation because 2 or more trailing spaces triggers a new paragraph. There are no examples of that usage in Node, all trailing whitespace found were mistakes, and the dispensation is now removed. See: #9620 PR-URL: #9676 Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io> Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com> Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
PR-URL: #9620 Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
markdown had a dispensation because 2 or more trailing spaces triggers a new paragraph. There are no examples of that usage in Node, all trailing whitespace found were mistakes, and the dispensation is now removed. See: #9620 PR-URL: #9676 Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io> Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com> Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
PR-URL: #9620 Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
markdown had a dispensation because 2 or more trailing spaces triggers a new paragraph. There are no examples of that usage in Node, all trailing whitespace found were mistakes, and the dispensation is now removed. See: #9620 PR-URL: #9676 Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io> Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com> Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
PR-URL: #9620 Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
markdown had a dispensation because 2 or more trailing spaces triggers a new paragraph. There are no examples of that usage in Node, all trailing whitespace found were mistakes, and the dispensation is now removed. See: #9620 PR-URL: #9676 Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io> Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com> Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
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lines should not end in trailing whitespace