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		Mizza on Jan 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Search: .lenght - Github If you use Vim from the terminal to edit text (which I do), trailing whitespace shows up as big white blocks. It's slightly visually distracting, but it's really just an OCD thing.

gbog on Jan 15, 2012 [–]

No.

Absence or presence of trailing whitespaces is sometime significant, such as in big ereg in re.VERBOSE mode in Python.

Therefore, it must be visible, and if it is visible it must be removed when it has no use.

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