The purify mode doesn't seem to have any effect when it is set in the editor. In fact, the only places it is referenced in the source code are commented out (in lindent and rindent). I think it probably should have an effect on save: remove trailing whitespace from otherwise blank lines -- and this is in-line with what most other source editors do.
Related to [#350]
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Proposed change. If
-purifyset, then trim lines before save. Alternately, this could be specified as-msnew trimlines,-msold trimlinesif we don't want to re-purpose the option.