Allow TS formatter to not remove extra spaces after the first non-whitespace character (and before the last).

[Tyriar]

TS Template added by @mjbvz

TypeScript Version: 4.6

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• formatting
• whitespace

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I often format code like this outside in other projects:

I've found this particularly useful when dealing with color channel in an array as it makes it much easier to see the differences in the RHS:

data[i    ] = …;
data[i + 1] = …;
data[i + 2] = …;
data[i + 3] = …;

alt+shift+f removes this whitespace, I checked settings and there are a bunch of whitespace related ones but they all seem to be strict around adding a single space. Can we add a setting so we can have these use >=1 instead space?

[starball5]

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