vi: Strip trailing Whitespace

Posted on 2009-05-04 by Stefan Rubner

This obviously was too easy for me. To strip trailing whitespace when editing a file with

vi

, just use

:%s/ *$//

{openx:6}

The space before the asterisk is important ;)

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