Robert Hicks wrote:
I know that in some IDE's I can check a box that causes the IDE to
automatically strip trailing white space. Does Vim have a switch to do
that or do I need to do:
autocmd BufWritePre * %s/\s*$//e
It would be nice to have a "set stripwhitespace" if that is the case but
I guess that is the power of Vim.
Robert
AFAIK there is no such setting, but your autocommand is the next best thing.
OTOH you can _see_ end-of-line whitespace by setting the 'list' and
'listchars' options appropriately. For instance,
:set list listchars=tab:\ \ ,eol:$
displays the files as usual, but with a blue dollar sign (well, blue by
default: a colorscheme can change that) just after the last character on each
line.
Best regards,
Tony
