Trailing whitespaces make a lot of noise in a revision control system.
This is a Vim script to highlight trailing whitespaces and then strip them.

Usage:

One can place the following configuration in their .vimrc to remove the trailing whitespaces on file write:

let g:strip_whitespaces_on_save = 1

Or one can manually invoke the script using the following keybinding:

<Leader>sw

Installation

If you don’t have a preferred installation method, I recommend using Vundle

With Vundle, you can simply add Bundle ‘notalex/vim-strip-trailers’ to your .vimrc and run

:BundleInstall