Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:49:42 -0400 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Vim highlighting for trailing spaces |
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On 6/29/07, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote: > Kyle Moffett wrote: > > On Jun 28, 2007, at 03:20:24, Dave Young wrote: > >> And for vim trailing space, there's a tip in vim.org: > >> http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=878 > > > > I actually prefer this (in .vimrc): > > > > " Show trailing whitespace and spaces before tabs > > hi link localWhitespaceError Error > > au Syntax * syn match localWhitespaceError /\(\zs\%#\|\s\)\+$/ display > > au Syntax * syn match localWhitespaceError / \+\ze\t/ display > > > > It always displays trailing whitespace and spaces-before tabs... except > > if your cursor is at the end of the whitespace. The updating is > > occasionally a bit laggy (EG: Put spaces on a line and then move the > > cursor off it without pressing <ENTER>), but when you hit Ctrl-L, enter, > > or edit an adjacent line then it updates. > > Stolen from an old message in LKML - I don't remember who's the author: > > highlight WhitespaceEOL ctermbg=red guibg=red > match WhitespaceEOL /\s\+$/ > > Works without any glitches here (not "laggy"). But I don't use > syntax coloring - never tried if it works with coloring or not. >
That only highlights whitespace at the end of the lines. You might want to use pattern below to also highlight "tab after space" in the middle of the line:
:highlight RedundantSpaces ctermbg=red guibg=red :match RedundantSpaces /\s\+$\| \+\ze\t/
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