Re: [OT] Vim highlighting for trailing spaces

[Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>]

On Jun 29, 2007, at 08:49:42, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 6/29/07, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
>> highlight WhitespaceEOL ctermbg=red guibg=red
>> match WhitespaceEOL /\s\+$/
>>
>> Works without any glitches here (not "laggy").  But I don't use  
>> syntax coloring - never tried if it works with coloring or not.
>>
>
> That only highlights whitespace at the end of the lines. You might  
> want to use pattern below to also highlight "tab after space" in  
> the middle of the line:
>
> :highlight RedundantSpaces ctermbg=red guibg=red
> :match RedundantSpaces /\s\+$\| \+\ze\t/

You missed the nice part about my vimrc patterns: :-D

Kyle Moffett wrote:
> It always displays trailing whitespace and spaces-before tabs...  
> except if your cursor is at the end of the whitespace.

They intentionally *don't* display whitespace at the end of the line  
to the left of your cursor.  I tried that one (that you quoted), but  
got annoyed by the fact that immediately after you typed any space or  
tab you had a little red blob to the left of the cursor.  So some of  
that "lagginess" is intentionaly (although not all of it, due to vim  
limitations).

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett