Whitespace

• Tabs and Spaces - Lines are indented using tabs or spaces depending on how the following preferences from File ‣ Preferences ‣ Settings ‣ Text Editor ‣ Editor are configured:

  • The Insert Spaces (editor.insertSpaces) option controls if the indentation will use space characters or tabs.

  • The Tab Size (editor.tabSize) option controls the size of a tab in spaces.

• Trim End of Line Whitespace (DVT.textEditor.vHDL.formatting.whitespace.trimEndOfLineWhitespace) - Controls whether to trim end of line whitespaces.

Before	After

• Trim Whitespace Lines (DVT.textEditor.vHDL.formatting.whitespace.trimWhitespaceLines) - Controls whether to trim lines containing only whitespaces.

Before	After

• Compact Whitespace Groups (DVT.textEditor.vHDL.formatting.whitespace.compactWhitespaceGroups) - Controls whether to compact consecutive whitespace characters. It does not affect indentation, that is the whitespace at the beginning of a line is not affected by this option.

Before	After

• Compact Consecutive Empty Lines (DVT.textEditor.vHDL.formatting.whitespace.compactConsecutiveEmptyLines) - When enabled, consecutive empty lines are compacted into groups of lines whose number is less than or equal to a specified value. It does not affect the empty lines inside multi-line comments.

  • Maximum Number Of Consecutive Empty Lines (DVT.textEditor.vHDL.formatting.whitespace.maximumNumberOfConsecutiveEmptyLines) - Consecutive empty lines are compacted when their number exceeds this value.

Before	After (Preference is set to “1”)

• Add Whitespace Before (DVT.textEditor.vHDL.formatting.whitespace.addWhitespaceBefore) - List of tokens before which whitespace will be added.

Before	After (“:=” token)

• Add Whitespace After (DVT.textEditor.vHDL.formatting.whitespace.addWhitespaceAfter) - List of tokens after which whitespace will be added.

Before	After (“:=” token)