Vscode: Trim Trailing Whitespace Breaks Markdown

[TheColorRed]

When this is set to true

"files.trimTrailingWhitespace": true

trailing spaces get removed at the end of the line in md/markdown files. By default, two spaces in markdown is the same as a <br>. When saving the file with that setting, those two spaces get removed and it changes the output of the markdown.

[bpasero]

Well I think we need language specific setting overrides which we have a feature request already for.

[matthewjohnston4]

@bpasero could you link to the other feature request to make it easy to find? Not sure whether this issue has been fixed!

[bpasero]

I think you can use the editor-config extension to configure this now (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EditorConfig.EditorConfig)

[pszlazak]

Successfully disabled files.trimTrailingWhitespace for Markdown using language specific settings.
Snippet from my settings.json:

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