# tidy.nvim 🧹 **tidy.nvim** removes trailing white space and empty lines on BufWritePre. ![tidy-demo](https://github.com/mcauley-penney/tidy.nvim/assets/59481467/f3807c69-2b36-4a14-b83a-dd0f2829e096) ## Features - Remove white space at the end of every line on save - Remove empty lines at the end of the buffer on save ## Requirements - Neovim >= 0.9.0 It may (should) work on lower versions, but is tested and updated using nightly. ## Installation Your installation configuration will depend on your plugin manager. Below is the basic installation (using default options) for lazy.nvim. ```lua { "mcauley-penney/tidy.nvim", config = true, } ``` ## Configuration tidy.nvim comes with the following options and their default settings: ```lua { filetype_exclude = {} -- Tidy will not be enabled for any filetype, e.g. "markdown", in this table } ``` A more full example configuration for lazy.nvim would be: ```lua { "mcauley-penney/tidy.nvim", config = { filetype_exclude = { "markdown", "diff" } }, init = function() vim.keymap.set('n', "te", require("tidy").toggle, {}) end } ``` ## Usage tidy.nvim comes with the following functions: | Lua | Description | | -------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `require("tidy").toggle()` | Turn tidy.nvim off for the current buffer a plugin | ## About and Credits I originally wrote this as a wrapper around a couple of vim regex commands used for formatting files before I began using formatters. These commands are not mine, please see the sources below. Even with real formatters in my setup now, I still like and use this because I like these specific formats to be applied to every buffer and don't want to have a formatting tool installed for them. - [Vim Tips Wiki entry for removing unwanted spaces](https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Remove_unwanted_spaces#Automatically_removing_all_trailing_whitespace) - `ib.`, the author of [this Stack Overflow answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/7501902) - [This line](https://github.com/gpanders/editorconfig.nvim/blob/ae3586771996b2fb1662eb0c17f5d1f4f5759bb7/lua/editorconfig.lua#L180) in [gpanders/editorconfig.nvim](https://github.com/gpanders/editorconfig.nvim) for exposing me to the `keepjumps` and `keeppatterns` modifiers