Re: [OT] Vim highlighting for trailing spaces

From: Josh Triplett
Date: Fri Jun 29 2007 - 03:54:05 EST


Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jun 28 2007 23:11, Kyle Moffett wrote:
>> I actually prefer this (in .vimrc):
>>
>> " Show trailing whitespace and spaces before tabs
>> hi link localWhitespaceError Error
>> au Syntax * syn match localWhitespaceError /\(\zs\%#\|\s\)\+$/ display
>> au Syntax * syn match localWhitespaceError / \+\ze\t/ display
>
> I prefer this:
>
> find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -Pn '[\t ]+$'
>
> It is editor agnostic, and I do not have to look through all source files for
> highlighted whitespace :-)

And if you really want highlighting, you can always use grep --color. :)

- Josh Triplett

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