Showing trailing spaces in vim
I've set the following options in .vimrc
set listchars=tab:▸\ ,trail:·
set list
And expected to see dots in those places where spaces are used for tabulation in the code (I use spaces, not tabs). However, the result is different:
Could you please recommend how to reach the desired result? Thanks!
Solution
You should check this link. I'm using the match command solution :
:highlight ExtraWhitespace ctermbg=red guibg=red
:match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$/
This page also provides list based solutions which I haven't personally tried.
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