" via: http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/60-remove-trailing-whitespace " Strip trailing whitespace function! StripTrailingWhitespaces() " Preparation: save last search, and cursor position. let _s=@/ let l = line(".") let c = col(".") " Do the business: %s/\s\+$//e " Clean up: restore previous search history, and cursor position let @/=_s call cursor(l, c) endfunction command! StripTrailingWhitespaces call StripTrailingWhitespaces() nmap ,w :StripTrailingWhitespaces