In this lab, you will be adding and removing whitespace from text files. Basic knowledge of opening files, along with familiarity of working with Emacs whitespace, is recommended. Upon completing this lab, you will know how to work with whitespace in Emacs and how to use line and region indentation.
Learning Objectives
Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:
- Open the Files
- Open the file
/tmp/remove_whitespace
. - Open the file
/tmp/add_indentation
.
- Open the file
- Correct Whitespace
- Remove all the empty lines from the file
/tmp/remove_whitespace
. - Remove leading and trailing whitespace from
/tmp/remove_whitespace
.
- Remove all the empty lines from the file
- Correct Indentation
- Follow the instructions in Section 1 of the file
/tmp/add_indentation
to complete the line indentation. - Follow the instructions in Section 2 of the file
/tmp/add_indentation
to complete the region indentation.
- Follow the instructions in Section 1 of the file