Should no-irregular-whitespace skip template strings by default?

What rule do you want to change?

no-irregular-whitespace

Does this change cause the rule to produce more or fewer warnings?

Fewer

How will the change be implemented? (New option, new default behavior, etc.)?

New default behavior

Please provide some example code that this change will affect:

/* eslint no-irregular-whitespace: error */

` <-- non-breaking space`;

What does the rule currently do for this code?

3:2 - Irregular whitespace not allowed. (no-irregular-whitespace)

What will the rule do after it’s changed?

No error (template strings will be skipped by default, just like other strings)

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This is currently working as intended since we have skipTemplates: true option available. The question here is, should we change the default behavior with the 5.0 release so that template strings are skipped by default? Seems like this would be the more natural behavior given that skipStrings is also true by default. My guess is we added skipTemplates in a semver-minor release and just never went back to change the default behavior around templates.

The change would be to have skipTemplates default to true.

Inspired by #10159.

[pfgithub]

Shouldn’t this use the feature request format instead of bug report format?

[eslint-deprecated[bot]]

Unfortunately, it looks like there wasn’t enough interest from the team or community to implement this change. While we wish we’d be able to accommodate everyone’s requests, we do need to prioritize. We’ve found that issues failing to reach accepted status after 21 days tend to never be accepted, and as such, we close those issues. This doesn’t mean the idea isn’t interesting or useful, just that it’s not something the team can commit to.

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