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authorbnewbold <bryan@octopart.com>2011-12-13 16:28:13 -0500
committerbnewbold <bryan@octopart.com>2011-12-13 16:28:13 -0500
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vim whitespace
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@@ -30,12 +30,11 @@ Here's what a typical ``.vimrc`` looks like for me::
Commands
-------------
-I search and replace globally a lot::
+Search and replace globally::
:%s/before/after/g
-Tricks
--------------
+
I often want to pull a particular gnarly line or two from another file; here's
the command I use to grab three lines of context around 'phrase'::
@@ -62,7 +61,7 @@ using::
:w !sudo tee %
-Strip all trailing whitespace from a file::
+Search for trailing whitespace, or just strip it all::
+ /\s\+$
:%s/\s\+$//
-