I know that Sublime Text 2 can delete the trailing white space on files upon saving.
When working in a team and commiting a change to a file this tends to produce huge diffs which make peer code review more cumbersome. For that reason I prefer to only do the white space cleaning when I'm commiting huge changes to a file anyway and leave whitespace as it is for the minor changes.
I would like to know if there's any command for executing the trimming of the white space on demand on a file, other than "Activate trimming on save > Save file > Deactivate trimming"
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Searching in the Documentation and on stackoverflow didn't show anything relevant, all the links seem to talk about the auto trimming on save.
Beware: using this plugin makes Sublime Text significantly slower
I use TrailingSpaces plugin for this.
Highlight trailing spaces and delete them in a flash.
ST2 provides a way to automatically delete trailing spaces upon file
save. Depending on your settings, it may be more handy to just
highlight them and/or delete them by hand. This plugin provides just
that!
Usage: click "Edit / Trailing Spaces / Delete".
To add a key binding, open "Preferences / Key Bindings - User" and add:
{ "keys": ["ctrl+alt+t"], "command": "delete_trailing_spaces" }
I use these steps for a quick on-demand solution within Sublime Text:
- Find > Replace...
- Find What:
[ \t]+\n
- Replace With:
\n
- Replace All
You could also do this for a large set of files via
- Find > Find in Files...
- Find:
[ \t]+\n
- Where:
- Replace:
\n
- Replace
Here's a super simple way that uses no plugins or settings and works in most situations.
- Multi-Select and move cursor to the end of every line
- Hold CTRL-Shift, Press Left, Right
The spaces and tabs at the end of the lines should now be selected. Press Delete or Backspace
Note - Special characters such as ( and + may also be selected at the end of the line at this point, not just spaces.
How to Multi-Select all lines:
One way is to use the middle mouse key to select vertically then hit the End Key if it's a small selection.
With hot-keys:
- CTRL-A (select all)
- CTRL-SHIFT-L (place cursor on all lines selected)
- END (Go to end of lines)
You can also use the find function to find something that will be in every line, like the space character:
- \s (using regex)
- Click Find All
- Press the "End" key to get multiple cursors at the end of each line
Sample Text:
text and number 44 more text and a space
text and number 44 more text and 2 tabs
text and number 44 more text and no space or tab
text and number 44 more text after a line feed
You can simply use a regex to remove trailing whitespaces:
- Find > Replace...
- Find what:
[^\S\r\n]+$
- Replace with: leave empty.
- Click 'Replace All'
[^\S\r\n]+$
is Regex for "at least one whitespace character (so spaces and tabs but not newlines, using a double negation) followed by the end of the line"
I found a soulution here:
http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4958
You can modify the package
trim_trailing_white_space.py
located in the default packages directory, this way:
import sublime, sublime_plugin
def trim_trailing_white_space(view):
trailing_white_space = view.find_all("[\t ]+$")
trailing_white_space.reverse()
edit = view.begin_edit()
for r in trailing_white_space:
view.erase(edit, r)
view.end_edit(edit)
class TrimTrailingWhiteSpaceCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
def run(self, edit):
trim_trailing_white_space(self.view)
class TrimTrailingWhiteSpace(sublime_plugin.EventListener):
def on_pre_save(self, view):
if view.settings().get("trim_trailing_white_space_on_save") == True:
trim_trailing_white_space(view)
class EnsureNewlineAtEof(sublime_plugin.EventListener):
def on_pre_save(self, view):
if view.settings().get("ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save") == True:
if view.size() > 0 and view.substr(view.size() - 1) != '\n':
edit = view.begin_edit()
view.insert(edit, view.size(), "\n")
view.end_edit(edit)
Now you can add the command to your keymap configuration:
{ "keys": ["your_shortcut"], "command": "trim_trailing_white_space" }