From 1864c0430f4fb4d604cff70137949759d21e4471 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony Duckles <tony@nynim.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 14:57:36 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] .vimrc: Enhanced strip-trailing-whitespace

---
 .vim/bundle/whitespace/plugin/whitespace.vim | 9 +++++++++
 .vimrc                                       | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 .vim/bundle/whitespace/plugin/whitespace.vim

diff --git a/.vim/bundle/whitespace/plugin/whitespace.vim b/.vim/bundle/whitespace/plugin/whitespace.vim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bd0bfe2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.vim/bundle/whitespace/plugin/whitespace.vim
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+" thanks to http://vimcasts.org/e/4
+function! whitespace#strip_trailing()
+  let previous_search=@/
+  let previous_cursor_line=line('.')
+  let previous_cursor_column=col('.')
+  %s/\s\+$//e
+  let @/=previous_search
+  call cursor(previous_cursor_line, previous_cursor_column)
+endfunction
diff --git a/.vimrc b/.vimrc
index f4aeacb..635dadc 100644
--- a/.vimrc
+++ b/.vimrc
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ nmap <leader>l mQviwu`Q
 nmap <leader>U mQgewvU`Q
 nmap <leader>L mQgewvu`Q
 " strip all trailing whitespace in file
-nmap <leader>s :%s/\s\+$//<CR>
+nmap <leader>s :call whitespace#strip_trailing()<CR>
 " toggle spell-check
 nmap <leader>sp :setlocal spell! spelllang=en_us spell?<CR>
 " set text wrapping toggles
-- 
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