tidy.nvim 🧹

tidy.nvim removes trailing white space and empty lines on BufWritePre.

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.

{
    "mcauley-penney/tidy.nvim",
    config = true,
}

Configuration

tidy.nvim comes with the following options and their default settings:

    {
    	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:

{
    "mcauley-penney/tidy.nvim",
    config = {
        filetype_exclude = { "markdown", "diff" }
    },
    init = function()
        vim.keymap.set('n', "<leader>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

• ib., the author of this Stack Overflow answer

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