Irregular whitespace not allowed

[dylanparry]

Hi,

I’m getting the error “Irregular whitespace not allowed” when I run standard on any of my files. I’ve created a project in VS2015, and am running my scripts via Task Runner Explorer and the NPM scripts extension—I run all my scripts this way, and have no problems with Webpack etc.

I’ve set up a script in my package.json to run standard against all JS/JSX files in my JavaScript directory, and using the babel-eslint parser. All my files are using ES6/ES7 syntax.

The error occurs for any file that I run it against. I’ve tried running it on specific files, and they all get the same error.

Any ideas?

> cmd.exe /c npm run lint --color=always
> NPM@1.0.0 lint E:\Documents\Visual Studio Projects\electricfreedom\ElectricFreedom.WebUI
> standard JavaScript/**/*.js* --parser babel-eslint
standard: Use JavaScript Standard Style (https://github.com/feross/standard) 
  E:\Documents\Visual Studio Projects\electricfreedom\ElectricFreedom.WebUI\JavaScript\admin\Actions\AlbumActions.js:1:1: Irregular whitespace not allowed
npm ERR! NPM@1.0.0 lint: `standard JavaScript/**/*.js* --parser babel-eslint`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the NPM@1.0.0 lint script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the NPM package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     standard JavaScript/**/*.js* --parser babel-eslint
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls NPM
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200
npm ERR! command "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\Common7\\IDE\\Extensions\\Microsoft\\Web Tools\\External\\\\node\\node" "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\Common7\\IDE\\Extensions\\Microsoft\\Web Tools\\External\\npm\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "run" "lint" "--color=always"
npm ERR! cwd E:\Documents\Visual Studio Projects\electricfreedom\ElectricFreedom.WebUI
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.31
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.9
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
Process terminated with code 1.

[dylanparry]

Seems this is caused by #283 and Visual Studio automatically adding in the BEM character at the start of the file. I have installed and extension (https://vlasovstudio.com/fix-file-encoding/) to fix this.