[PATCH] Trim trailing whitespace in vim and emacs

Folks,

Here's my attempt to $subject. I've tested with vim, but I'm much less
certain I got the EMACS code right.

Is there any interest in such a feature?

Best,
David.
---
 .dir-locals.el                | 3 ++-
 src/tools/editors/vim.samples | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.dir-locals.el b/.dir-locals.el
index 9525d6b604..858461e6bd 100644
--- a/.dir-locals.el
+++ b/.dir-locals.el
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
             (c-file-style . "bsd")
             (fill-column . 78)
             (indent-tabs-mode . t)
-            (tab-width . 4)))
+            (tab-width . 4)
+            (lambda () (add-to-list 'write-file-functions 'delete-trailing-whitespace)))))
  (dsssl-mode . ((indent-tabs-mode . nil)))
  (nxml-mode . ((indent-tabs-mode . nil)))
  (perl-mode . ((perl-indent-level . 4)
diff --git a/src/tools/editors/vim.samples b/src/tools/editors/vim.samples
index ccbc93f69b..f5e2181bc3 100644
--- a/src/tools/editors/vim.samples
+++ b/src/tools/editors/vim.samples
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 :  set cinoptions=(0
 :  set tabstop=4
 :  set shiftwidth=4
+:  autocmd FileType asm,c,conf,sql,xml,xs,xslt,yacc autocmd BufWritePre <buffer> %s/\s\+$//e
 
 :endif
 
-- 
2.17.1


-- 
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