Eclipse Checkstyle Disable "Lline has trailing spaces"

Question

I'm using eclipse on Win 7. I'm also using checkstyle and find that checkstyle is complaining about trailing white space in comments.

I wish to disable this check in checkstyle, not make any modifications to my environment as I wish to share the check style file with other developers in the office an ensure everyone can see the code in the same checkstyle "light" :)

I'm okay with other built in features that would solve this problem. I've tried: Ctrl+Shift+F and Ctrl+Alt+C. Neither of which auto fix the trailing space automatically.

Solution 1

Found the way to disable it in checkstyle:

Preferences -> CheckStyle -> Regexp -> RegexpSingleLine (Disable)

Solution 2

Window->Preferences->Java->Editor->Save Actions.

Press Configure button.

On Code Organizing tab check Remove trailing whitespace.

Comments

[James Oravec]

Thanks Alexander, this changes my environment though and not the check style settings. The check style settings are contained in an xml file which I can share with other developers. I found the answer to my question and will post the steps.

[Martin Spamer]

There is no point gaming the system by accepting your own answer it doesn't earn you any points.

[Jeffrey Martinez]

@MartinSpamer, don't know the original intentions, but SO encourages folks to post questions and answers if it will be useful on the site (stackoverflow.com/help/self-answer)

[MZS]

For the format property, I found I had to use a negative lookbehind instead of a negative lookahead. I also think [^$] matches everything but a dollar sign, not a newline. This worked for me: <property name="format" value="(?&lt;!^\s+\*)\s+$"/> It's not perfect, because it will ignore trailing whitespace on any line that starts with an asterisk (regardless of whether you're inside a Javadoc comment).