Toggle highlighting of trailing whitespace vi and vim stack exchange. I configure my editor vim to show white space at the end, e. Dec 09, 2019 highlights trailing whitespace in red and provides. Vim has a lot of builtin settings and features for handling whitespace, and this article will go over those with the examples the vim help pages lack. By default the command operates on the entire file. Id like to emphasize the trailing spaces symbols but leave the tab symbol nearly invisible. How to not leave trailing whitespace using your editor or. How to show whitespace characters when list is set. Many posts aimed at new vim users tend to just paste a large. The workaround if you ever need to enter this rare sequence of keys is to enter the j, wait for the leadercheck timeout to fade, and then enter the k. Dec 16, 2017 although i hate with hate, i mean it when someone sends me a patch and i cant apply it cleanly because of the trailing whitespaces in this moment i understand this guy and this other trailing whitespaces hater.
It can be hard to maintain consistent use of whitespace characters space and tab. Since i use vim i leave here some solutions to remove and highlight them automatically. Id like to propose highlighting trailing whitespace by default, and possibly also spacebeforetab errors. It been bothering me for a while, that the same thing doesnt work properly in gvim, which i use more. For occasional use, you can simply search using a suitable pattern to highlight what you want.
And expected to see dots in those places where spaces are used for tabulation in the code i use spaces, not tabs actually this is the other way round, tab option is used to display a character when a tab character is inserted \t instead of spaces. Although i hate with hate, i mean it when someone sends me a patch and i cant apply it cleanly because of the trailing whitespaces in this moment i understand this guy and this other trailing whitespaces hater. The text bundle offers a command remove trailing spaces in document selection, which you can call before saving. Whats the simplest way to strip trailing whitespace from. Remove all trailing whitespace by pressing f5 nnoremap. Oct 01, 2009 as you say, thats a good way to force your fingers to learn the way of h, j, k and l. Commit diffs on git normally show trailing whitespaces if set to colored diffs. Show whitespace characters in gvim 3 check out listchars and list options in vim. Jul, 2010 commit diffs on git normally show trailing whitespaces if set to colored diffs. Uptodate documentation for the latest stable version is available here. Highlight trailing whitespace packages package control.
And trail is use to show trailing spaces at the end of lines you seem to have single empty line with trailing spaces, and dots are correctly. Vim mostly gets bogged down by complex syntax patterns. This means that tabs should be shown as followed by a stream of characters. When i am editing i like to see whitespace so in my. The number of characters depends on how many spaces a tab should be as defined by your tabstop setting. Whitespace for the current line will not be highlighted while in insert mode.
I both highlight existing trailing whitespace and also strip trailing whitespace. By default, trailing whitespace is highlighted in all vim buffers. You are currently viewing documentation for moodle 1. Learning the vi editorvimenhancing vim wikibooks, open. You may not want spaces before tabs, or trailing whitespace at the end of a. Vim refers to the mode that is used to display whitespace characters as list mode. Syntax highlighting is what allows you to highlight program code and other files for better readability, using colorization, bold, and other font modifications. Be clever about highlighting trailing whitespace dont highlight it if we are in insert mode and the cursor is at the end of the line.
Ideally to be safe i would like to only have this functionality for certain files, e. Not to mention when you notice and remove them, they clutter up your version control history. Highlight all tabs and trailing whitespace characters. Highlight problematic whitespace formatting set nowrap wrap long lines set autoindent indent at the same level of the previous line set shiftwidth4 use indents of 4 spaces set expandtab tabs are spaces, not tabs set tabstop4 an. How to automatically strip trailing spaces on save in vi. Vims ability to display man pages easily using the k mapping often comes handy. The reason is that vims ability to display man pages depends on having a terminal emulator, which just isnt true for gvim, hence the garbled display of man pages one sees if he tries viewing a man page. Posted on december 7, 20 december 1, 2018 categories tips, vim tags vim 2 comments on highlight whitespace at endofline in vim quickly exiting insertmode in vim changing from insert mode to normal mode is usually quick. Showtrailingwhitespace detect unwanted whitespace at the. I want to highlight extra white spaces and fixed length column e. If you want to limit the operation to a specific area, you can visually select the area first, before invoking the command. Contribute to sjmeliavimbetter whitespace development by creating an account on github. Except right now when i wrote this section of this post. These would be tabs, trailing spaces and line ends.
It is possible to disable current line highlighting while in other modes as well see options below. Whitespace characters at the ends of lines are sloppy and almost completely useless. Vim has a lot of builtin settings and features for handling whitespace, and this article will. Plugin ntpetersvimbetterwhitespace show changes of files with git information in the gutter. Heres one approach, in a function from the vim tips wiki. First, you told vim to call your toggle function every time you enter or leave the insert mode. How to automatically strip trailing spaces on save in vi and. That can be mitigated by using git diff ignorespaceateol, but its better to never let it become a problem.
As you say, thats a good way to force your fingers to learn the way of h, j, k and l. To make the highlight color agree with the chosen colorscheme, use. Since some pages that i edit actually need trailing whitespaces e. This plugin causes all trailing whitespace characters see supported whitespace characters below to be highlighted. Also regardless of insert mode, highlight any tabs that immediately follow spaces. How can you automatically remove trailing whitespace in vim. January 12, 2016for any good programmer, consistent whitespace is a measure of codequality. Getting whitespace to behave in vim using settings and plugins. Something like what is implemented in gedit, geany, komodo, and other gui editors where when the option is turned on spaces show as a muted or greyedout. Sometimes, trailing whitespace is desired, or even essential in a file so be careful when implementing this autocmd.
Install the sublime text package control plugin if you havent already. To turn it on you can enter set list on the vim command line or add it to your vimrc file. To turn it off again, you can use the set nolist command. Some users may want to selectively enable disable this for certain filetypes, or files in a particular. Striptrailingwhitespace confirm asks you to confirm each removal of trailing whitespace there are cases where you might actually want them. The number of characters depends on how many spaces a tab should be as defined by your tabstop. Highlight and jump to trailing whitespace vim here are some commands in my. If you want to limit the operation to a specific area, you can visually. The first part contains the list of all my plugins. I started with vi so long ago that i remember being surprised around five years ago when i accidentally discovered that vim knows about the arrow keys. Is there an easy way to display whitespace characters such as space and tab in gvim. The three statusline flags of interest in the above screenshots are. Highlights trailing whitespace in red and provides. My indentation level is fourspacestoatab but theres so many projects out there that have their own.