[vox] vim magic

Mark K. Kim vox@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:48:40 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Bryan Richter wrote:

> Generating a column of numbers with a single command.
> "1
>  2
>  3
>  4
>  5
>  ..."

There are many ways to do this, none of which I know off the top of my
head... =P

> Second was colorizing all white space, which was handy when checking for
> spaces at the end of a line, etc.

Easy:

   :set hlsearch        " enable highlighted search
   /\s                  " search for whitespaces

Or... if you just wanna get rid of whitespaces at the end of each line:

   :%s/\s*$//

-Mark


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