Why is indentation in empty lines bad?

Question

Every FOSS project I know has rules against trailing whitespace in code. But I think it\'s very natural to continue the current indentation on the next line:

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Answer 1

This can also be rude to vi users who are accustomed to using paragraph navigation to jump around through code. Sometimes I do this when vi and it's quite surprising when I skip several functions because invisible characters said this is actually part of the previous paragraph.