Hosts File Editor: Adds no whitespace option

[WalterWolf49]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.87.0

Installation method

WinGet

Running as admin

Yes

Area(s) with issue?

Hosts File Editor

Steps to reproduce

Create or modify any hosts file entry or simply enabling/disabling them.

✔️ Expected Behavior

creates or modifies any entry without adding leading spaces for every entry.

❌ Actual Behavior

creates or modifies entries with two leading spaces for every entry. Those leading spaces cause issues with some software, e.g. squid.

Other Software

Squid proxy (4.14)

[crutkas]

The double space is intentional so enabled and disabled all are aligned when you view the file.

I have extra white space in files all the time, feels a bit odd that they can't handle extra white space. most people would just delete the # in a comment.

Shifting this to a feature request as that file can have white space there.

[WalterWolf49]

This behaviour makes sense from an aesthetic point of view then.

So this is more likely a problem from squid's side, if the file is allowed to have white spaces. I guess their handling of the whitespace as a delimiter at the beginning might be a bit weird.

[htcfreek]

@blakestack
Your contribution is welcome and thank you for your work on this. Feel free to open a PR. If you have any further questions don't worry to ask them.

I think this should be a compatibility setting defaulting to off.