Suppress "mixed spaces and tabs" warning in JSHint / JSLint or alternative service?

Question

JSHint and JSLint are awesome tools.

However, the "mixed spaces and tabs" warning dominates the report. Is there a way to suppress these warnings, or is there a similar service that allows white space warnings to get suppressed?

Answer 1

It's not possible to switch off this warning with a flag, and the JSHint maintainer doesn't want to add a flag for this.

However, it is possible to turn off warnings according to their number. In this case, you'd write:

/* jshint -W099 */ 

If you're using a JSHint configuration file, you can specify this there too:

{     "-W099": true, // allowed mixed tabs and spaces } 

Alternatively, there's a custom reporter available to switch off this warning.

Answer 2

/*jshint smarttabs:true */ 

See smarttabs, under "Relaxing Options." http://www.jshint.com/docs/options/

This option suppresses warnings about mixed tabs and spaces when the latter are used for alignmnent only. The technique is called SmartTabs.