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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:53:27 -0700
From: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
CC: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>, Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [OT] Vim highlighting for trailing spaces
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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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