tidy.nvim 🧹

An autocommand that removes all

- trailing whitespace
- empty lines at the end of the buffer

on every BufWritePre.

About

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 Credits section below for sources. 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.

Installation

• packer.nvim

use({
    "mcauley-penney/tidy.nvim",
    config = function()
        require("tidy").setup()
    end
})

Configuration

Tidy will work on all buffers using only the basic installation shown above. No configuration options are required. The options displayed below are simply examples.

require("tidy").setup({
    filetype_exclude = { "markdown", "diff" },
})

Credits

• Vim Tips Wiki entry for removing unwanted spaces

• ib., the author of this Stack Overflow answer

• This line in gpanders/editorconfig.nvim for exposing me to the keepjumps and keeppatterns modifiers