How can you automatically remove trailing whitespace in vim

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I found the answer here.

Adding the following to my .vimrc file did the trick:

autocmd BufWritePre *.py :%s/\s\+$//e

The e flag at the end means that the command doesn’t issue an error message if the search pattern fails. See :h :s_flags for more.

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