Re: [OT] Vim highlighting for trailing spaces

["Dave Young" <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>]

On 6/29/07, Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2007.06.29 01:42:22 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > > On Jun 29 2007 00:53, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > >> And if you really want highlighting, you can always use grep --color. :)
> > >
> > > Been there, done that, have GREP_COLOR env variable defined!
> >
> > Same here.  Now I just need to convince git-grep to use it.
>
> You need to convince grep. When piping its output to less, it won't
> colorize unless forced. Always forcing color via GREP_OPTIONS might
> break certain use-cases, and git-grep doesn't allow to pass options. So
> for me, a bash alias it is:
>
> alias gg='GREP_OPTIONS=--color=always git-grep'
>
> You might need to set LESS=-R in addition to that, to stop less from
> stripping the color codes.
>
> Björn
>
I ussualy prefer the simple vim search command:
/\ *$