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Fix trim_trailing_whitespace typo in .editorconfig file #6349

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trim_trailing_spaces seems to have been an older proposal for the name of this property but trim_trailing_whitespace is what was finally settled on. trim_trailing_whitespace already appears twice in this file.

https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig/wiki/EditorConfig-Properties#trim_trailing_whitespace

Cc: @Alhadis who added this file originally

trim_trailing_spaces seems to have been an older proposal for the name
of this property but trim_trailing_whitespace is what was finally
settled on. trim_trailing_whitespace already appears twice in this file.

https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig/wiki/EditorConfig-Properties#trim_trailing_whitespace
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I don't know about being part of an earlier proposal; this looks to be more of an honest typo to me. Regardless, good catch.

@Alhadis Alhadis changed the title Change trim_trailing_spaces to trim_trailing_whitespace in .editorconfig file Fix trim_trailing_whitespace typo in .editorconfig file Apr 1, 2023
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an earlier proposal

It's one of the four possible names for this option suggested here:

https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig/wiki/Property-research:-Trim-trailing-spaces

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Alhadis commented Apr 3, 2023

It's one of the four possible names for this option suggested here:

Judging from git-blame(1), those suggestions were made loooooong ago:

$ git clone https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig.wiki.git
$ cd editorconfig.wiki/
$ git blame 'Property-research:-Trim-trailing-spaces.md'
41e31d80 (sindresorhus      2012-07-01 07:03:56 -0700  7) ## Naming ideas
41e31d80 (sindresorhus      2012-07-01 07:03:56 -0700  8) 
3c852fbe (David D Lowe      2016-12-02 12:14:34 +0100  9) - trim_trailing_whitespace (note: this is the name that ended up being chosen)
99a257a6 (Trey Hunner       2012-07-02 08:18:14 -0700 10) - trim_trailing_spaces
41e31d80 (sindresorhus      2012-07-01 07:03:56 -0700 11) - allow_trailing_space
a241dde5 (Alexander Sashnov 2018-08-25 23:46:16 +0700 12) - strip_trailing_space

So, as far back as mid-2012, and probably long before it saw widespread adoption.

Regardless, this was clearly a typo, because both the correct and incorrect spellings were added in the same commit (by none other than yours truly); cf. lines 9 and 29.

@lildude lildude merged commit 16b37e8 into github-linguist:master Apr 3, 2023
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