Whitespace management

[rsmolkin]

Are there any linter rules for managing white space? Like detecting tabs vs spaces, indentation issues, trailing spaces, etc.?

[ryaneberly]

@rsmolkin Good question. There are none at this time. Due to the way tokens are currently lexed/parsed whitespace is discarded, checking whitespace is possible but not easy within the current framework.

[TheRealAgentK]

I think this might be a potential useful addition for an unspecified future release - will reopen and track as enhancement.

In the meantime, @rsmolkin - I can recommend using http://editorconfig.org/ for helping you to manage tabs/spaces/indentation etc. across IDEs and across team members etc.

It's not quite the same as having linting rules, but it'll help with consistency.

[jaredbeck]

:+1: Consistency of tabs vs. spaces is the reason my team is investigating using a linter.

[isaac-mercieca]

I have added a very basic implementation of the tabs and the moment it enforces spaces over tabs, however I still need to merge with the latest version. I will creating a pull request by the end of next week as the moment I stuck on another project.