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 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?
I found the answer here.
Adding the following to my .vimrc file did the trick:
The
eflag at the end means that the command doesn’t issue an error message if the search pattern fails. See:h :s_flagsfor more.