/mini.trailspace

Neovim Lua plugin to manage trailspace (highlight and remove). Part of 'mini.nvim' library.

Primary LanguageLuaMIT LicenseMIT

GitHub license

Work with trailing whitespace

See more details in Features and help file.


⦿ This is a part of mini.nvim library. Please use this link if you want to mention this module.

⦿ All contributions (issues, pull requests, discussions, etc.) are done inside of 'mini.nvim'.

⦿ See the repository page to learn about common design principles and configuration recipes.


If you want to help this project grow but don't know where to start, check out contributing guides of 'mini.nvim' or leave a Github star for 'mini.nvim' project and/or any its standalone Git repositories.

Demo

demo-trailspace.mp4

Features

  • Highlighting is done only in modifiable buffer by default, only in Normal mode, and stops in Insert mode and when leaving window.
  • Trim all trailing whitespace with MiniTrailspace.trim().
  • Trim all trailing empty lines with MiniTrailspace.trim_last_lines().

Installation

This plugin can be installed as part of 'mini.nvim' library (recommended) or as a standalone Git repository.

There are two branches to install from:

  • main (default, recommended) will have latest development version of plugin. All changes since last stable release should be perceived as being in beta testing phase (meaning they already passed alpha-testing and are moderately settled).
  • stable will be updated only upon releases with code tested during public beta-testing phase in main branch.

Here are code snippets for some common installation methods (use only one):

With mini.deps
Github repo Branch Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library Main Follow recommended 'mini.deps' installation
Stable
Standalone plugin Main add('echasnovski/mini.trailspace')
Stable add({ source = 'echasnovski/mini.trailspace', checkout = 'stable' })
With folke/lazy.nvim
Github repo Branch Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library Main { 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', version = false },
Stable { 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', version = '*' },
Standalone plugin Main { 'echasnovski/mini.trailspace', version = false },
Stable { 'echasnovski/mini.trailspace', version = '*' },
With junegunn/vim-plug
Github repo Branch Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library Main Plug 'echasnovski/mini.nvim'
Stable Plug 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', { 'branch': 'stable' }
Standalone plugin Main Plug 'echasnovski/mini.trailspace'
Stable Plug 'echasnovski/mini.trailspace', { 'branch': 'stable' }

Important: don't forget to call require('mini.trailspace').setup() to enable its functionality.

Note: if you are on Windows, there might be problems with too long file paths (like error: unable to create file <some file name>: Filename too long). Try doing one of the following:

  • Enable corresponding git global config value: git config --system core.longpaths true. Then try to reinstall.
  • Install plugin in other place with shorter path.

Default config

-- No need to copy this inside `setup()`. Will be used automatically.
{
  -- Highlight only in normal buffers (ones with empty 'buftype'). This is
  -- useful to not show trailing whitespace where it usually doesn't matter.
  only_in_normal_buffers = true,
}

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