Getting rid of block like characters at the end of line in vim

Question

Given my .vimrc, how do I get rid of these brownish characters at the end of line in vim ?

Answer 1

This could be either the result of a previous search for $ (end of line), or the explicit display of end of line markers.

You can disable the highlighting of search results with :set nohlsearch.

You can disable the explicit end of line markers with :set nolist.

Answer 2

If you actually want to remove the trailing whitespace:

:%s/[[:space:]]\+$//