How To Install vim-trailing-whitespace on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-trailing-whitespace on CentOS 7.

What is vim-trailing-whitespace

This plugin causes all trailing whitespace to be highlighted in red. To fix the whitespace errors, just call it operates on the entire file. Pass a range (or use V to select some lines) to restrict the portion of the file that gets fixed.

We can use yum or dnf to install vim-trailing-whitespace on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vim-trailing-whitespace.

Install vim-trailing-whitespace on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install vim-trailing-whitespace using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vim-trailing-whitespace

Install vim-trailing-whitespace on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install vim-trailing-whitespace using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vim-trailing-whitespace

How To Uninstall vim-trailing-whitespace on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the vim-trailing-whitespace package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove vim-trailing-whitespace

References

• vim-trailing-whitespace website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-trailing-whitespace on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.