Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

Changelog, Rules & FAQ, updates: @vimgolf, RSS.

Your VimGolf key: please sign in

$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put 4d1a4d82a860b7447200008d

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Start file

	convert tabs to spaces

		strip all blank lines 

	and remove any trailing spaces   

End file

  convert tabs to spaces
    strip all blank lines
  and remove any trailing spaces

View Diff

1,5c1,3
< 	convert tabs to spaces
< 
< 		strip all blank lines 
< 
< 	and remove any trailing spaces   
---
>   convert tabs to spaces
>     strip all blank lines
>   and remove any trailing spaces

Solutions by @BZ_VG:

Created by: @igrigorik Tweet

736 active golfers, 3339 entries

Solutions by @BZ_VG:

17

#65 - BZ_VG / @BZ_VG

11/12/2012 at 09:39AM

19

#>187 - BZ_VG / @BZ_VG

11/08/2012 at 07:37AM

20

#>195 - BZ_VG / @BZ_VG

11/07/2012 at 11:31AM

21

#>208 - BZ_VG / @BZ_VG

11/06/2012 at 10:00AM

22

#>274 - BZ_VG / @BZ_VG

11/01/2012 at 01:20PM

25

#>364 - BZ_VG / @BZ_VG

11/01/2012 at 01:18PM

26

#>388 - BZ_VG / @BZ_VG

11/01/2012 at 01:16PM

27

#>419 - BZ_VG / @BZ_VG

11/01/2012 at 01:07PM