Difference between Editor: Trim Auto Whitespace and Files: Trim Trailing Whitespace in VSCode Settings

Question

What is the difference between the Editor: Trim Auto Whitespace and Files: Trim Trailing Whitespace settings in VSCode? They seem like redundant settings, so I want to understand how they differ.

Answer 1

If you go ahead to Code >> Preferences >> Settings >> Search 'Trim'.

Here's what is mentioned:

Editor: Trim Auto Whitespace - Remove trailing auto inserted whitespace

Files: Trim Trailing Whitespace: - When enabled, will trim trailing whitespace when saving a file.

The significance here is that they are both pretty similar. The major difference is that the 'Files: Trim Trailing Whitespace" option trims your whitespace upon saving a file.