I am getting 'trailing whitespace' errors trying to commit some files in git.
I want to remove these trailing whitespace characters automatically right before I save python files.
Can you configure vim to do this? If so, how?
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I found the answer here (http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Remove_unwanted_spaces#Automatically_removing_all_trailing_whitespace).
Adding the following to my .vimrc file did the trick.
autocmd BufWritePre *.py :%s/\s\+$//e
Paul D. Eden
2008-12-10 14:03:53
Is there any easy way to tell stackoverflow that the // is not really a comment here?
Mikeage
2008-12-11 10:03:36
Interesting! Trailing white space is a battle at work. I loathe it, others don't understand why. We use as much vi as vim (I use vim; they don't because they'd have to install it). I have a program I call stb to Strip Trailing Blanks and I use that as a filter; works in vi too. This is better.
Jonathan Leffler
2009-01-15 14:06:10
This changes cursor position on each save. Is is possible to avoid it?
stepancheg
2009-10-24 15:59:18
OK, I've found, answer is below.
stepancheg
2009-10-24 16:11:11
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I also usually have a :
match Todo /\s\+$/
in my .vimrc file, so that end of line whitespace are hilighted.
Todo being a syntax hilighting group-name that is used for hilighting keywords like TODO, FIXME or XXX. It has an annoyingly ugly yellowish background color, and I find it's the best to hilight things you don't want in your code :-)
mat
2008-12-10 14:23:20
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This is how I'm doing it. I can't remember where I stole it from tbh.
autocmd BufWritePre * :call <SID>StripWhite()
fun! <SID>StripWhite()
%s/[ \t]\+$//ge
%s!^\( \+\)\t!\=StrRepeat("\t", 1 + strlen(submatch(1)) / 8)!ge
endfun
gregf
2008-12-11 23:20:23
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Compilation of above plus saving cursor position:
fun! <SID>StripTrailingWhitespaces()
let l = line(".")
let c = col(".")
%s/\s\+$//e
call cursor(l, c)
endfun
autocmd BufWritePre *.h :call <SID>StripTrailingWhitespaces()
stepancheg
2009-10-24 16:10:50