Sublime Text 2: Trim trailing white space on demand

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José Luis picture José Luis · Sep 6, 2012 · Viewed 93.6k times · Source

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".

Searching in the Documentation and on stackoverflow didn't show anything relevant, all the links seem to talk about the auto trimming on save.

Answer

Jason Favors picture Jason Favors · Oct 15, 2013

I use these steps for a quick on-demand solution within Sublime Text:

  1. Find > Replace...
  2. Find What: [ \t]+\n
  3. Replace With: \n
  4. Replace All

You could also do this for a large set of files via

  1. Find > Find in Files...
  2. Find: [ \t]+\n
  3. Where:
  4. Replace: \n
  5. Replace

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